Questions tagged [korban-pesach]
Paschal Lamb sacrificed in the Beis Hamikdash on 14th Nissan eaten together with Matza and Marror
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Must people who live in Tel Aviv bring the Korban Pesach during Temple times?
Mishna Pessachim 9:1-2 says, based on Num. 9:10, that someone who is on a long journey may bring the Korban Pesach on the 14th of Iyar.
Rambam in Hilchot Korban Pessach 5:8 rules that the distance of ...
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The mitzvah of mezuzah doesn't commemorate the Korban Pesach?
It is very hard to miss the obvious connection between the mitzvah of mezuzah and the blood of the Korban Pesach. Yet, I am not aware of any major sources directly connecting the two.
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Did Rabbi Yehudah ben Bateira not come for the Regel?
The gemara in Pesachim 3b brings a story in which Rabbi Yehudah ben Bateira discovers that an Aramean non-Jew is eating from the Korban Pesach in Yerushalayim. He tricks him into outing him to the ...
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Were women present in the Temple when offering the Korban Pesach?
Women are obligated to bring a korban Pesach. The mishna even talks about a group of women doing their own.
So does that mean in the afternoon of the 14th of Nissan, you'd find both men and women in ...
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How can there be a custom which creates Nosar?
The Torah says not to leave over the meat of the Pesach offering (Exodus 12:10), known as the prohibition of Nosar. Even though this prohibition doesn't get lashes, either because it doesn't have an ...
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What sort of person are we prohibited from serving them the meat of the pesach offering?
It says in sefer hachinuch that we are prohibited from serving meat of the pesach offering to an apostate.
For this prohibition to be in force, exactly what sort of person would be considered an ...
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Who wrote the introduction to the Pesach Sacrifice printed on Pesachim 57b [duplicate]
There is an introduction to the Pesach Sacrifice that takes up the majority of Pesachim 57b. An excerpt is reproduced below.
סדר והלכות קרבן פסח ראשון בקצרה
מצות עשה לשחוט קרבן פסח בי"ד בניסן ...
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it
In Deuteronomy 16:2 it says one has to slaughter the passover sacrifice from the flock AND herd.
Then in verse 3 it says: “You shall not eat anything leavened with it; for seven days you shall eat ...
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How and in what sense can the matzoh and moror nullify the Korban Pesach?
The Oruch HaShulchan in Simon סימן תעה quotes the Rambam (פרק שמיני דין ו:)
ואחר כך מברך "על נטילת ידים"... ואחר כך כורך מצה ומרור כאחת, ומטבל
בחרוסת ומברך "ברוך... אשר קדשנו במצותיו ...
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Why is an asham of greater holiness than a pesach offering? [duplicate]
The korbanot section in the daily siddur (Zevachim 5) describes the types of korbanot, where they were offered and the level of holiness of each type. Why are ashamot (guilt offerings) of greater ...
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Why did everybody have to bring their own knife for slaughtering the Korban Pesach?
We learn in the Talmud (Pesachim 66a)
אמרו לו "רבי, שכח ולא הביא סכין מערב שבת מהו?" אמר להן "הלכה זו שמעתי ושכחתי אלא הנח להן לישראל אם אין נביאים הן בני נביאים הן"
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Where is the missing altar?
Each year a a group of individuals receive news coverage (for example here) for attempting to enter the Har Habayit to bring the Pesach Offfering. (They are stopped by the police.) Since the Korban ...
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Why is the Biblical Second Temple Pesach not mentioned in Seder Korban Pesach?
Some have the custom to recite Seder Korban Pesach (a description of the Korban Pesach service in the Temple) on the afternoon of Erev Pesach. Some include before this recitation a selection of ...
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What is the significance of using specifically a chicken for the Zero'ah?
The Chabad custom and possibly others is to use a chicken neck as the zero'ah.
Why specifically do we use a chicken to substitute for the Korban Pesach and not any other animal or fowl?
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Why can you put the Chagiga on the table with the Pesach?
The end of Pesachim 9:8 says:
נִתְעָרֵב בִּבְכוֹרוֹת, רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, אִם חֲבוּרַת כֹּהֲנִים, יֹאכֵלוּ:
If the Pesach got mixed up with Bechoros, Rabbi Shimon says, if it's a group of ...
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Is one supposed to eat the zero'ah (shank bone) from the Seder plate?
I'd appreciate some clarity on this issue as I have heard and seen conflicting answers on this - in viewing various questions on this site as well as instructions in a haggadah. Here's some of what I ...
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What did they say instead of Ha Lachma Anya in Temple times?
They couldn't have said "Let all who are hungry come and eat", because only those who were registered for the Pesach could eat at the Seder.
Did they say it (or something like it) earlier (on Erev ...
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Why does the servant register on a Pesach by himself?
Pesachim 8:2:
הָאוֹמֵר לְעַבְדּוֹ, צֵא וּשְׁחֹט עָלַי אֶת הַפֶּסַח, שָׁחַט גְּדִי, יֹאכַל. שָׁחַט טָלֶה, יֹאכַל. שָׁחַט גְּדִי וְטָלֶה, יֹאכַל מִן הָרִאשׁוֹן.
שָׁכַח מָה אָמַר לוֹ רַבּוֹ, כֵּיצַד ...
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Why must the Pesach Korban had to be eaten entirely [closed]
Why does the Pesach Korban in Lev 22:30 have to be eaten in its entirety and nothing should remain till next morning?
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Passover Lamb: Why is the bone not broken?
The Torah in Exodus 12:46 teaches us the prohibition of breaking a bone from the Passover lamb:
בְּבַ֤יִת אֶחָד֙ יֵאָכֵ֔ל לֹא־תוֹצִ֧יא מִן־הַבַּ֛יִת מִן־הַבָּשָׂ֖ר ח֑וּצָה וְעֶ֖צֶם לֹ֥א תִשְׁבְּרוּ־בֽוֹ׃
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Why do we burn Tamei and Passul Karbanos Pesach on the 15th?
The Mishnah in Pesachim (82a,83a) states:
הפסח שיצא או שנטמא ישרף מיד. נטמאו הבעלים או שמתו תעובר צורתו וישרף בט״ז. ר׳ יוחנן בן ברוקה אומר אף זה ישרף מיד לפי שאין לו אוכלין. העצמות והגידין והנותר ...
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Why is emphasis put on the sparing of the Jewish people at Makas Bechoros more than at any of the other Makos?
Shmos 12:27 --------------- שמות יב כז
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֡ם זֶֽבַח־פֶּ֨סַח ה֜וּא לַֽיהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר פָּ֠סַח
עַל־בָּתֵּ֤י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם בְּנָגְפּ֥וֹ
אֶת־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֶת־בָּתֵּ֣ינוּ ...
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Why didn't women complain about not being able to bring the Pesach?
During the first year in the desert, some men were tamei and complained that they couldn't bring the Pesach. This resulted in the mitzvah of Pesach Sheni.
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Why are the Pesach sacrifice and Brit Milah so closely connected?
During a Brit, last week, Rabbi Pesach Krohn mentioned how special it is when someone has a brit during Pesach as there is a close connection of these two events.
Indeed, I found these connections:
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Is the Afikoman meant to be a substitute for Korban Pesach?
I don't recall, offhand, what the purpose of the Afikoman is. Is it supposed to "represent" the Pesach sacrifice?
If so - I'm curious about a common instruction I see in many Hagaddot. It says that ...
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How could we bring korban pesach in egypt if it was served as a deity?
It says Shemos 8,22:
הֵ֣ן נִזְבַּ֞ח אֶת־תּֽוֹעֲבַ֥ת מִצְרַ֛יִם לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֖ם וְלֹ֥א יִסְקְלֻֽנוּ׃ (...)
"(...) If we sacrifice the god of the the Egyptians won't they stone us?" (...
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Does Passover sacrifice make atonement?
Is Passover lamb (paschal or pesach feast) said to be atonement and not just commemorative of the original Passover sacrifice in Egypt?
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