[Avodah] A New Mitzvah at the Seder

[Zev Sero]

On 23/3/21 9:58 am, allan.engel--- via Avodah wrote:
> I have often contended that, in the era of the Korban Pesach, an average
> person would not have the expertise or equipment to calculate Chatzos
> Layla, and that therefore the people must have been careful to finish
> eating the Korban early in the night, so as not to transgress the D'oraysa
> (in the same way as we stop eating Chametz long before Chatzos Yom on the
> 14th Nissan).

Not necessarily.  Sinch chatzos is only a geder to prevent it running 
past dawn, people may have been generous in calculating it, knowing that 
if they ran over it by a little it was no big deal.

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Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy 5781
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                      May a new year and its blessings begin"