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Can you say the same with regard to the Paschal offering of the generations, which requires the placement of blood on the altar and that the sacrificial portions be consumed by the altar?
R' Eliezer said to him: The Paschal offerings should be compared, as the verse states with regard to the Paschal offering of the generations: “And it shall be when YHWH shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore
The Talmud discusses the opinion of R' Akiva: Initially, R' Akiva rejects the statement of R' Eliezer based on the claim that one cannot derive the possible from the impossible. He then rejects the statement of R' Eliezer on a technicality, namely that the two Paschal offerings have different sacrif
And if he retracted and conceded that one derives the possible from the impossible, and the fact that he did not derive the halakha with regard to the Paschal offering of the generations from the halakha of the Paschal offering in Egypt is due to that refutation that he proposed, i.e., that the Pasc
The Talmud explains: R' Akiva stated this objection in accordance with the statement of R' Eliezer. He meant as follows: According to my opinion, one does not derive the possible from the impossible, and this is a sufficient reason why one cannot derive the halakha with regard to the Paschal offer