YW fan: Your question is one that got me thinking this year’s Pesach Seder, and honestly I couldn’t answer it very well. I announced by the seder this year to the kids to be smart, be alert and to ask ask ask. Tonight we ask many questions about anything by the Seder, anything about Pesach. So I could see my 5 1/2 yr old thinking really hard and after about a minute he sheepishly asks, “why can’t we eat chometz?”. I told him because the Torah instruts us yidden not to eat chometz on Pesach. Then, my 10 year old neice pipes up and asks, “yeah, but what’s the REASON?”
stumped.