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The Talmud asks: If, according to the opinion of R' Akiva, we are not concerned that the meat might spoil, let us sacrifice the daily offering at 6½ hours, as there are many Paschal lambs and no voluntary vow or free-will offerings to be sacrificed. Why, then, should they postpone the daily offerin
Rabba bar Ulla strongly objects to this explanation. Does the baraita teach: Like the arrangement of the daily offering during the week, so is its arrangement on Shabbat that occurs on Passover eve; this is the statement of R' Yishmael? The baraita simply teaches: So is its arrangement on Shabbat.
Rather, Rabba bar Ulla said: The baraita should be understood as referring not to the eve of Passover, but to the rest of the days of the year, and this is what it is teaching: Like its arrangement on an ordinary day during the week, so is its arrangement on an ordinary Shabbat, at 8½ hours; this
R' Akiva says: Like its arrangement on an ordinary Passover eve that occurs on a weekday, at 7½ hours, so is its arrangement on an ordinary Shabbat. Since no free-will offerings are offered on Shabbat, the daily offering can be sacrificed earlier. And the Mishnah, which teaches that the daily offer
According to this explanation, with regard to what principle do these tanna’im disagree? They disagree concerning whether a decree should be issued on account of voluntary vows and free-will offerings. R' Yishmael holds that we issue a decree for Shabbat due to weekdays. During the week, the sacrif