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

[Zev Sero]

On 12/09/2013 6:07 PM, Chana Luntz wrote:
>   but given the
> gemora's resolution that in fact he only took the kidney from the korban
> pesach for a moment until he was given some sort of token in exchange (which
> allowed the korban pesach kidney to then be burnt on the mizbeach as
> required), it could be that he took the kidney, and then gave it back in
> exchange for some tokens that illustrated the numbers of people counted on
> that korban, and those tokens were then themselves deemed (and called)
> "kidneys" - and it is to those that the shishim ribui zugei kilos refers.
> That would cut the numbers in the Azarah to at least a tenth of RMB's
> calculation - which would still make for serious numbers,  but presumably
> not enough to make Rava's position bizarre.

So what does "and there is no Pesach that does not have at least ten people
signed up for it" mean?  If he was counting people rather than korbanos, how
is the minimum subscription per korban relevant?  Is the gemara trying to tell
us how many korbanos those 1.2M tokens represented, and minimising the number
by saying that if there were 1.2M tokens there could have been *no more* than
120K?!  That doesn't seem consistent with the immediately preceding line,
"beside those who were tamei or far away", which serves to *increase* the
population.


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