[Avodah] Exchange of the Levi'im for the bechorim

[Harry Weiss]

> From: hankman <hankman at bell.net>
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> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:59:48PM -0400, hankman wrote:
> : I have a similar problem with the first korban Pesach of the 2nd year
> : bamidbar. You have approx. 3,000,000 people who were mechuyav in the
> : korban divided by however many you assume per chabura, will still leave
> : you with an number in 5 or 6 digits for the number of korbanos Pesach
> : plus all the Chagigos etc. But you only had 3 kohanim to do all this...
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> RMB wrote:
> There were no qorbanos Pesach in the midbar. By the time kehunah was
> taken away from the bechorim, the next time the qorban is performed is
> in the days of Yehoshua at Giv'as haAralos / Gilgal (Yehoshua 5). It's
> still impossible to imagine there were that many kohanim in the 2nd and
> 3rd generations, so that the 90,000 or so sheep would still mean many
> thousands per kohein.
>
> CM responds:
> You misunderstood me. I agree there was no korban Pesach in the Midbar. But there was one exception, that was the first anniversary of yetzias Mitzraim, ie., the beginning of the second year in the Midbar, two weeks after the hakomas haMishkon. This was the Pesach that those who were tamei lemeis complained ?lama nigora? and were then informed of Pesach Sheini. This was the Pesach I was referring to in my post ? there were but three kohanim at that time.
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Until Shiloh private Bamot were allowed for some things.   Perhaps they 
were brought on Private Bamot where no Kohen wasw needed.