Commentary for Pesachim 189:8

ורבנן האי יעשו אותו מאי עבדי ליה מיבעי ליה שאין שוחטין את הפסח על היחיד דכמה דאפשר לאהדורי מהדרינן

is not exact, then say that it is like a particularization and a general proposition, whereby the general proposition is accounted as adding to the particularization, so that even all regulations [are included]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is a general principle of exegesis that if a law is first stated in a particular instance and then in a general form, the former does not limit the latter but on the contrary the latter generalizes the former, so that all instances are included. Here a particular instance of similarity between the first Passover and the second is stated in v. 11 while in v. 12 a general law is stated that the two are alike in all respects.');">¹⁰</span> hence he informs us [that It is not so].

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