Chasidut for Pesachim 131:1

אמר לו רבי עקיבא או חלוף מה אם הזאה שהיא משום שבות אינה דוחה את השבת שחיטה שהיא משום מלאכה אינו דין שלא תדחה את השבת אמר לו ר' אליעזר עקיבא עקרת מה שכתוב בתורה (במדבר ט, ב) במועדו בין בחול בין בשבת

SAID R. AKIBA TO HIM, OR ON THE CONTRARY: IF HAZAAH, WHICH IS [FORBIDDEN] AS A SHEBUTH, DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH, THEN SHECHITAH, WHICH IS [NORMALLY FORBIDDEN] ON ACCOUNT OF LABOUR, IS IT NOT LOGICAL THAT IT DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH. AKIBA! SAID R. ELIEZER TO HIM, YOU WOULD ERASE WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH, [LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PREPARE THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE] IN ITS APPOINTED TIME, [IMPLYING] BOTH ON WEEK-DAYS AND ON THE SABBATH. SAID HE TO HIM, MASTER, GIVE ME AN APPOINTED TIME FOR THESE AS THERE IS AN APPOINTED SEASON FOR SHECHITAH! R. AKIBA STATED A GENERAL RULE: WORK WHICH COULD BE DONE ON THE EVE OF THE SABBATH OVERRIDES THE SABBATH; SHECHITAH, WHICH COULD NOT BE DONE ON THE EVE OF THE SABBATH, DOES OVERRIDE THE SABBATH.

Chovat HaTalmidim

If you are very discouraged because your father and grandfather were simple people, raise your gaze up above them and look further back. Who were your ancestors from way back? The saints, the prophets, the tannaim, the amoraim, the giants and the tzaddikim. And the Gemara says (Pesachim 66a), "If Israelites are not prophets, they are the children of prophets." This is not something that was the case in the past and is no longer. Rather the Gemara is saying that is there a spark of the prophets in you and in every Jewish lad also now. But it is up to you to search for it and reveal it in yourself.

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