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with few people registered for it, so that each person receives a large portion of the offering. Therefore, there is no need for a Festival peace-offering or for a cleaver. The Talmud questions this answer: How do the owners know already on the 13th that only a small number of people will be registe
Rather, we must say that we are talking about a Paschal lamb that came in a state of ritual impurity, in which case a Festival peace-offering is not brought, and consequently there is no need for a cleaver. The Talmud asks: Ultimately, how do the owners know already on the 13th when they are immer
The Talmud answers that we are talking about a situation where the Nasi died, in which case all of Israel must defile themselves in order to participate in his burial. The Talmud asks: When did the Nasi die? If you say that he died on the 13th and everyone became ritually impure as a result, why do
The Talmud answers: It was necessary to teach this halakha only in a case where the Nasi was in a dying state on the 13th. With regard to a slaughtering knife, about which there is only one doubt, that perhaps the Nasi will die before the Festival and the Paschal lamb will be brought in a state o
It was taught in a baraita: Yehuda ben Dortai separated himself from the other Rabbis, he and Dortai his son, and went and settled in the south so that he would not be obligated to bring the Paschal lamb, seeing that he was at a great distance from Jerusalem. He did this because he disagreed with th