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And if you wish, say that Rav, who said that, according to the Mishnah, if one did sprinkle the blood it is accepted, holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehoshua, that eating the Paschal lamb is not essential. As it was taught in a baraita that R' Yehoshua says: With regard to all offering
With regard to the offerings of a nazirite and one who performs the ritual of a Paschal lamb, if the fat became impure and the meat remains pure, one may sprinkle the blood. If the meat became impure and the fat remains pure, one may not sprinkle the blood because eating the offering is a part of
If the owners became ritually impure from a corpse and therefore cannot eat the offering, one may not sprinkle the blood; and if one sprinkled it, it was not accepted. Although failure to eat the offering does not preclude it from being accepted, that rule applies only when the owner of the offerin
It was taught in the Mishnah: With regard to other offerings it is not so; even if the meat has become ritually impure, if the fat remains pure, the blood is sprinkled on the altar. The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna of the Mishnah?
The Talmud answers: It is R' Yehoshua. As it was taught in a baraita that R' Yehoshua says: With regard to all the offerings in the Torah from which there remains an olive-bulk of meat that is fit to be eaten or an olive-bulk of fat that is fit to be sacrificed on the altar, one may sprinkle the bl