[Avodah] Passover and Circumcision in the Desert

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:24:30PM +0300, Larry Israel wrote:
: My question is how the Passover a year after the Exodus was celebrated?
: I thought that you could not have uncircumcised boys in the family and
: still eat the Paschal sacrifice.  Or was there an exception because the
: children could not be circumcised because of the constant possibility of
: travel?

Tosafos (Qiddushin 37b "Ho'il") simply answers that they didn't. I
assume they mean after year 2 (Bamidbar 9:7 discusses the "qorban
Pesach Lashem", and much Torah is said about why this one was Lashem
and the original doesn't get that appelation).

The Ritva (not there, so I don't recall where -- Yevamos? Gitin?) says
that the older generation did, only those born in the desert weren't
gemalt and didn't.

I wondered about shitas haTosafos, since according to either opinion,
the women could form chaburos without any men in them. So why wouldn't
they have brought the qorban?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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