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Mishnah: The daily afternoon offering is slaughtered at 8½ hours of the day, which is 2½ hours after midday, and is sacrificed, i.e., its offering on the altar is completed, at 9½ hours of the day. On the eves of Passover, when the Paschal lamb must be offered after the daily offering, the daily
Talmud: The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived, i.e., that the daily afternoon offering is sacrificed between 8½ hours of the day and 9½ hours?
R' Yehoshua ben Levi said: As the verse concerning the daily offering says: “The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the second lamb you shall offer in the afternoon [bein ha’arbayim]” (Numbers 28:4). He understands this as follows: The term for afternoon in the verse is a Hebrew phrase, th
Rava raised an objection: We learned in our Mishnah that on the eves of Passover the daily offering is slaughtered at 7½ hours and sacrificed at 8½ hours, both during the week and on Shabbat. And if it could enter your mind to say that the daily offering must be slaughtered at 8½ hours by Torah law
Rather, R' Yehoshua ben Levi’s source is rejected, and instead Rava said: The mitzva of the daily offering is from when the sun begins to descend westward so that the evening shadows slant eastward, shortly after midday. What is the reason for this? It is because the verse states: In the afternoon