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I could say to you that he holds in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis that the entire animal should be flayed.
Alternatively, it is possible that R' Yishmael, son of R' Yoḥanan ben Beroka, states his ruling only there, in the case of the Paschal offering, where the requirements for the Most High, i.e., the Temple service, have been fulfilled, and therefore there is no need to desecrate the Shabbat. But he
Rather, Rabba said: R' Yishmael and R' Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest, said the same thing. As we learned in the Mishnah that R' Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest, says: On Shabbat the barley was reaped by an individual with one sickle and with one basket into which the barley was placed; and during th
The Talmud explains Rabba’s comparison: Doesn’t R' Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest, say there, with regard to the process of gathering the barley, that since it is possible to reap by means of one person, we do not exert ourselves to reap it by means of 3? Here, too, R' Yishmael maintains that sinc
The Talmud rejects this comparison: From where is this conclusion reached? Perhaps R' Yishmael states his ruling only here, because there is no greater publicity of the event achieved by using 5 se’a rather than 3. But there, in the case of reaping the barley, where there is greater publicity of t