In our Parsha Bhaalotacha Bamidbar 9:6-7 it says

Third Reading: Numbers 9:1–14

Translated and Adapted by Moshe Wisnefsky

What Does Pesach Sheni Mean?

On the 14th of Nisan, 2449 – two weeks after the inauguration of the Tabernacle – G-d commanded the Jewish people to observe the holiday of Passover. (Since G-d had previously told the Jews that they would not be required to observe the festivals until entering the Land of Israel, this exceptional case necessitated an explicit command.) However, some of the people were ritually defiled and therefore unable to participate in the festival. They complained about being left out, and in response, G-d informed the people that whoever was unable to perform the Passover rituals on the date of the holiday should perform them a month later, on the 14th of Iyar.

It’s Never Too Late

ו  וַיְהִי אֲנָשִׁים, אֲשֶׁר הָיוּ טְמֵאִים לְנֶפֶשׁ אָדָם, וְלֹא-יָכְלוּ לַעֲשֹׂת-הַפֶּסַח, בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא; וַיִּקְרְבוּ לִפְנֵי מֹשֶׁה, וְלִפְנֵי אַהֲרֹן–בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא

6 And there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, and therefore they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

ז  וַיֹּאמְרוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים הָהֵמָּה, אֵלָיו, אֲנַחְנוּ טְמֵאִים, לְנֶפֶשׁ אָדָם; לָמָּה נִגָּרַע, לְבִלְתִּי הַקְרִיב אֶת-קָרְבַּן יְהוָה בְּמֹעֲדוֹ, בְּתוֹךְ, בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

7 And those men said to them: ‘We are unclean by the mitzva of carrying dead body of a man; and therefore, we are now not able to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?’ That is not fair!!!Why should we be punished?

ח  וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵהֶם, מֹשֶׁה:  עִמְדוּ וְאֶשְׁמְעָה, מַה-יְצַוֶּה יְהוָה לָכֶם.  {פ

8- Moshe Did not know what to tell them he felt very bed and he asked them to hold on he will consolt with Hashem and let them know what Hashem says.

ט  וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר.

9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

י  דַּבֵּר אֶל-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֵאמֹר:  אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי-יִהְיֶה-טָמֵא לָנֶפֶשׁ אוֹ בְדֶרֶךְ רְחֹקָה לָכֶם, אוֹ לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם, וְעָשָׂה פֶסַח, לַיהוָה.

10 ‘Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: If any man of you or of your generations or any other generation shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off and his not able to calibrate Pasach at its right time , he shall keep the Passover unto the LORD at another time, you shell have a Pasach Shani a second Pasach ;

בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי בְּאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר יוֹם . . . יַעֲשׂוּ אֹתוֹ וגו’ּ: (במדבר ט:יא)

11 in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

[G-d told Moses,] “[If someone was unable to offer up the Passover sacrifice on the 14th day of Nisan,] he must offer it up in the afternoon of the 14th day of [Iyar,] the second month.” Numbers 9:11

Pesach Sheni means “Second Passover [Sacrifice].” It marks the day when someone who was unable to participate in the Passover offering in the proper time would observe the mitzvah exactly one month later.

It is customary to mark this day by eating matzah—shmurah matzah, if possible—and by omitting Tachanun from the prayer services.

A year after the Exodus, G‑d instructed the people of Israel to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of the fourteenth of Nissan, and to eat it that evening, roasted over the fire, together with matzah and bitter herbs, as they had done the previous year just before they left Egypt.

“There were, however, certain persons who had become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, and could not, therefore, prepare the Passover offering on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron . . . and they said: ‘. . . Why should we be deprived, and not be able to present G‑d’s offering in its time, amongst the children of Israel?’” (Numbers 9:6–7).

In response to their plea, G‑d established the 14th of Iyar as a day for the “Second Passover” (Pesach Sheni) for anyone who was unable to bring the offering on its appointed time in the previous month.

QUESTION: The Torah Commends us to fulfil the Mitzvot in their proper time. If you missed doing A Mitzva in its proper time you just lost out. No make up for it. For example, Keeping Shabbat, you certainly can’t keep it on Sunday if for any reason you can’t keep it on Shabbat.

The Mitzva to blow Sofar is on Rosh Hashana You can’t blow Shofar on another day if you missed it on Rosh Hhashana.

If you missed fasting on Yom Kippur you can’t do it over on another day you missed the opportunity.

If A person did not put on Tafflin one day he can’t make it up or do it at another time he lost that opportunity he lost that day of the Mitzva.

There are only Two mitzvot in the whole Torah that Hashem allows you to fulfil them at a later time and they are the mitzva of Brit Mila & the Mitzva of Korban Pasach.

I can understand Brit Mila, the baby may not be ready, he may be weak, yellow etc. so, we are required to push it over until the baby is strong enough. But Pasach! Pasach Shani! Why

*Up until the Parsha of the Maraglim there was no DETAH in the Midbar. No one died.

Pasach Shani took place 1 year after the exile of Egypt so who died and who was involve in the touching and moving of corps?

The Torah tell us that #1 it was Nadav & Avieu & #2 it was Yoseph Hatzdick. Mishael & Eltzafun carried the bones of Nadav & Aviue and Mosh Rabyinu was carrying the bones of Yosef.

This is the only Mitzva that Hashem allows you to do it at another time. Even those who on purpose did not keep Pasach! Hashem gives them another chance.

Why did Hashem created on the spot another Pasach Holiday? Because he saw how upset Mishael & Eltzafunwere and how much they wanted to do this Mitzva he therefore gave them this present of Pasach Shani and to every other Jew.

מה הסוד של פסח שני? בגלל שקעב להם שלא יכלו לחגוג את פסח לכן השם יצר חג פסח שני לכל בןאדם לחגוג

It’s Never Too Late The lesson of the second Passover is that it is never too late to set things right. Even if one is spiritually sullied or has wandered far from the realm of holiness, G‑d still gives him a fresh opportunity to rewrite the past and to right all wrongs.