[Avodah] How many Korban Pesachs could be sacrificed in 1 day?

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From: Marty Bluke  <marty.bluke at gmail.com>

>>Recently I learned Pesachim 64b  (daf yomi) where the Gemara states that
King Agrippas wanted to take a census  so he had the Cohanim count the
number of Korban Pesachs that were brought  and it came out to 1.2 million
korbanos, 12 million people (10 to a  korban)....


1. The Korban Pesach is only brought in the afternoon of  the 14th of Nisan
...That means that they had to sacrifice over 340,000  korbanos an hour, 
over 5700 a minute and over 95 a second. ...


2. How could they possibly fit all of the people and animals in the  Azara?
...The Beis Hamikdash was simply not that big...
 

....given the dimensions of the Mishkan and the
Beis Hamikdash  and the number of people, how did everyone ever bring a
korban pesach? The  numbers just don't work. ...

 
>>>>
 
I asked my brother, R' Shabsi Bulman, that question, and here is his  reply:
 

"EVEN IF ONLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE OLEH LAREGEL THE LOGISTICS  
OF THEIR STAY WOULD BE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE. (ASK ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN TO A MAJOR  
LEVAYA.) IT IS OVERWHELMINGLY CLEAR THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT ALIYA LAREGEL IS  
MAASEH NISSIM FROM BEGINNING TO END. GMAR CHASIMA TOVA."
 
That is similar to what REMT wrote here on Avodah:  "it is still  
impossible without nissim."

 
My brother also wrote:
 
 
"ACTUALLY IT IS NOT MY IDEA AT ALL. BUT UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT RECALL WHERE 
 I SAW IT, MANY YEARS AGO."

 
 
So there's a source that it was all nissim.  Now we just have to find  that 
source.....

--Toby Katz
..GCT
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