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Mishnah: How does one roast the Paschal lamb? One brings a spit [shappud] of pomegranate wood and thrusts it into the mouth of the lamb until it reaches its anus, and one then puts its legs and entrails inside it and roasts it all together; this is the statement of R' Yosei HaGelili. R' Akiva says:
Talmud: The Talmud suggests: Let them bring a metal spit. The Talmud answers: With regard to a metal utensil, once part of it is hot, it is all hot, and the meat is roasted due to the heat of the spit. And God states in the Torah that the Paschal lamb must be roasted in fire and not roasted through
The Talmud suggests: Let them bring a spit made from an oak or from a carob tree or from a sycamore, which are hard and do not have sap. The Talmud answers: With regard to each one of these trees, since it has knots and one must cut them off in order to smooth the branch, it gives off water from th
The Talmud asks: A branch from a pomegranate tree also has knots. The Talmud answers: Its knots are smooth. There is no need to straighten the branch with a knife in order to use it, and therefore it does not emit water. And if you wish, say that the Mishnah is referring to a branch within its fir
The Talmud notes that the Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, as it was taught in a baraita that R' Yehuda says: Just as the part of a spit of wood that is inside the animal is not burned, although it is over the fire, so the part of a spit of metal that is inside the animal