<html><head></head><body><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">Re: [Avodah] omer - Rihal</span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody"></span><br><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:47:17 +0300
<br><br>>> This also explains why it took Hillel to pasqen what to do on Shabbos
<br>>> erev Pesach. For many years, the Saducees prevented a qiddush hachodesh
<br>>>that would allow erev Pesach on any day but Friday.
<br><br>> THANK YOU! Many works bring it as a great mystery that such a thing
<br>> could happen - Shabbat Erev Pesach is common enough on our calendar
<br>> that it shouldn't have been forgotten. I remembered seeing somewhere
<br>> that somehow, history had conspired for there to be some great number
<br>> of years without a Shabbat Erev Pesach, but I couldn't remember.</span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody"><br></span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">It would seem that the mysterious character behind this event is propounded by the Talmud Yerushalmi </span><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody"></span><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">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!</span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody"></span><br><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">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. <br></span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">(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.)<br></span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody">Zvi Lampel<br></span></p><p><span id="TextViewer" class="PlainTextBody"></span></p><br></body></html>