Pesachim 57B

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he signaled contemptuously with his hand and said: If goat is better, let it be sacrificed as the daily offering. The daily offering is a lamb, proving that its meat is preferable to that of a goat. The king said: Since he not only disagrees with me but has no reverence for the monarchy, as eviden

Rav Ashi said: Yissakhar of Kfar Barkai did not study the Mishnah and was an am ha'aretz who did not know that this halakha is stated explicitly in the Mishnah. As we learned in a Mishnah: R' Shimon says: Lambs take precedence over goats in every place they are mentioned in the Bible. I might have t