[Avodah] omer - Rihal

[zviLampel at theJnet.com]

Re: [Avodah] omer - Rihal
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:47:17 +0300


>> This also explains why it took Hillel to pasqen what to do on Shabbos

>> erev Pesach. For many years, the Saducees prevented a qiddush hachodesh

>>that would allow erev Pesach on any day but Friday.


> THANK YOU! Many works bring it as a great mystery that such a thing

> could happen - Shabbat Erev Pesach is common enough on our calendar

> that it shouldn't have been forgotten. I remembered seeing somewhere

> that somehow, history had conspired for there to be some great number

> of years without a Shabbat Erev Pesach, but I couldn't remember.
It would seem that the mysterious character behind this event is propounded by the Talmud Yerushalmi on Pesachim (6:1) itself: Said Rebbi Avoon, Isn't it impossible for two cycles of seven years to pass by without the 14th falling out on a Shabbos? Why was the halacha hidden from them?--To attribute greatness to Hillel!
Evidently, Erev-Pesach did fall out on Shabbos several times in Hillel's near past, yet Hashem somehow caused the practice regarding the korbon to be forgotten.--Unless one is willing to accept that Rebbi Avoon was unaware of the historical reality suggested above. 
(Incidentally, the Ohr Someach also seems not to take this Yerushalmi into account, and uses this incident as a source for the Rambam's principle about the ability of a Sanhedrin to overturn a previous Sanhedrin's drash: Hillel ultimately revealed that the reason for the previous practice was based upon a kaballa MiSinai, not a drash-generated halacha. Until then, the Bnei Besayra, with their objections to the drashos supporting the previous practice, were proposing a change.)
Zvi Lampel

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