Commentary for Pesachim 196:15

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תנו רבנן אמר להן ואמרו לו אוכל מן הראשון לא אמר להן ולא אמרו לו אינן אחראין זה לזה

ONE MEMBER OF THESE JOINS THOSE, AND ONE MEMBER OF THOSE JOINS THESE, AND THEY DECLARE THUS:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each company declares thus to the newcomer.');">²⁶</span> IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS OURS, YOUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR OWN AND YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR OURS; WHILE IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS YOURS,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it belongs to your first company.');">²⁷</span> OUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM OURS AND WE ARE REGISTERED FOR YOURS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One of each company must join the other, for otherwise each company would have to withdraw en masse from their own, if it had been taken by the second, thus leaving it momentarily entirely without owners, and this is forbidden.');">²⁸</span> SIMILARLY, IF THERE ARE FIVE COMPANIES CONSISTING OF FIVE MEMBERS EACH OR OF TEN EACH, THEY DRAW ONE FROM EACH COMPANY TO THEMSELVES AND MAKE THE FOREGOING DECLARATION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each company consists of four new members and one original member. The latter (or all the original members, where each company consisted of more than five) makes the foregoing declaration to each new member in turn.');">²⁹</span> IF THE PASCHAL SACRIFICES BELONGING TO TWO [SINGLE INDIVIDUALS] BECOME MIXED UP, EACH TAKES POSSESSION OF ONE [ANIMAL]; THIS ONE REGISTERS A STRANGER<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a man from the street'.');">³⁰</span> WITH HIMSELF AND THAT ONE REGISTERS A STRANGER WITH HIMSELF.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus there are now two registered persons for each sacrifice.');">³¹</span> THE FORMER GOES OVER TO THE LATTER SACRIFICE AND THE LATTER GOES OVER TO THE FORMER SACRIFICE, AND THEY [I. E. , EACH OWNER] DECLARE THUS: IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS MINE, YOUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR OWN AND YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR MINE; WHILE IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS YOURS, MY HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM MINE AND I AM REGISTERED FOR YOURS.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The general reasoning is the same as in the previous cases.');">³²</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Our Rabbis taught: if he instructed them and they instructed him, they must [all] eat of the first. If he did not instruct them and they did not instruct him, they are not responsible for each other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus in the first case one animal must be destroyed, whatever happens, while in the second both are eaten.');">³³</span>

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