Commentary for Pesachim 159:22

אמרי לא דכולי עלמא טומאה דחויה בציבור ובהא פליגי מר סבר

They do not observe the first [Passover], because they are a minority, and a minority do not observe [it] on the first. They cannot observe it on the second either: whenever the community observes [it] on the first, individual[s] observe [it] on the second; [but] whenever the community does not observe it on the first, individual[s] do not observe [it] on the second. Said Samuel to them [his disciples], Go out and say to Abba:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rab. His name was Abba Arika, but he was called Rab (the Master) in the same way that R. Judah ha-Nasi was called Rabbi.');">¹³</span> How do you dispose of, Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. IX, 2.');">¹⁴</span> - He [Rab] answered them: Go and say to him: [yet] how do you dispose of it [the verse] when they are all zabin?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When obviously the precept cannot be fulfilled.');">¹⁵</span> But [you must say] since it is impossible [to carry it out], it is impossible; so here too it is impossible. It was stated: If the majority were unclean through the dead and a minority were zabin, - R'Huna said: There is no compensation for a Passover-offering which comes in uncleanness;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the zabin cannot observe the second Passover.');">¹⁶</span> while R'Adda B'Ahabah said: There is compensation for a Passover-offering which comes In uncleanness. Shall we say that they differ in this, viz. , he who maintains [that] there is no compensation for a Passover-offering which comes in uncleanness holds: Uncleanness is overridden in the case of the community; while he who maintains [that] there is compensation for a Passover-offering which comes in uncleanness holds: Uncleanness is permitted in the case of a community!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 77a; hence it is really the same as any other Passover-offering, and therefore permits of compensation.');">¹⁷</span> - I will tell you. It is not so, for all hold [that] uncleanness is overridden in case of a community, and they differ in this: one Master holds:

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