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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:59:48PM -0400,
hankman wrote:<BR>: I have a similar problem with the first korban Pesach of the
2nd year<BR>: bamidbar. You have approx. 3,000,000 people who were mechuyav in
the<BR>: korban divided by however many you assume per chabura, will still
leave<BR>: you with an number in 5 or 6 digits for the number of korbanos
Pesach<BR>: plus all the Chagigos etc. But you only had 3 kohanim to do all
this...<BR><BR>RMB wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">There were no qorbanos Pesach in the midbar.
By the time kehunah was<BR>taken away from the bechorim, the next time the
qorban is performed is<BR>in the days of Yehoshua at Giv'as haAralos / Gilgal
(Yehoshua 5). It's<BR>still impossible to imagine there were that many kohanim
in the 2nd and<BR>3rd generations, so that the 90,000 or so sheep would still
mean many<BR>thousands per kohein.</FONT><BR><BR>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kol Tuv</DIV>
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<DIV>Chaim Manaster</DIV>
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