Commentary for Pesachim 137:4

אי הכי משחט נמי לא נשחט שמא ימצא זבח פסול ונמצא מחלל את השבת למפרע אלא הא אמר ליה ברישא ופרכיה והדר א"ל הך דמה לי אם דחו:

Rabbah raised an objection:R.Akiba answered and said, Let the haza'ah of a person unclean through the dead prove [refute] it, - when his seventh [day] falls on the Sabbath and on the eve of Passover, so that it is a religious duty and it is [only] a shebuth, yet it does not override the Sabbath. Hence he [R. Eliezer] certainly taught him about haza'ah for [the sake of] the Passover sacrifice. Then since he [himself] had taught it to him what is the reason that R. Eliezer rebutted him [thus]? - R. Eliezer had forgotten his own tradition, and R. Akiba came to remind him of his tradition. Then let him tell it to him explicitly? - He thought that it would not be mannerly. <br>

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