<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Larry Israel <<a href="mailto:VSLARRY@weizmann.ac.il">VSLARRY@weizmann.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>After the Jews cross the Jordan, Joshua has them circumcised. He<br>explains that the babies born in the desert, for forty years, had not<br>
been circumcised.<br><br>My question is how the Passover a year after the Exodus was celebrated?<br>I thought that you could not have uncircumcised boys in the family and<br>still eat the Paschal sacrifice. Or was there an exception because the<br>
children could not be circumcised because of the constant possibility of<br>travel?</blockquote>
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<div>As R' Micha mentioned, they did not bring korban Pesach for those years. The interesting thing here is that the two mitzvos aseh for which one can be chayev kares are the two things neglected for the 40 years in the desert. I'm not sure what the meaning behind this is.</div>
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<div>Michael</div></div>