Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 191:9

אפילו תימא רבי עקיבא השמר דלאו לאו השמר דעשה עשה

must it be assumed that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ruling that the Passover Sacrifice is only a positive commandment and the transgression of it does not, therefore, involve any of the penalties associated with a negative precept.');">²⁶</span> is not in agreement with the view of R'Akiba, for it were to be contended that it was in agreement with R'Akiba the objection would arise: Since he applied it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The text: 'Thou shalt, therefore, keep' (Ex. XIII, 10) .');">²⁷</span> to the Passover [sacrifice] a negative precept also should be involved as R'Akiba laid down in the name of R'Ila'i for R'Abin citing R'Ila'i laid down: Wherever the expressions 'Take heed',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hishshamer, of the same root as weshamarta ('And thou shalt, therefore, keep') which R. Akiba applied to the Passover.');">²⁸</span> 'Lest' or 'Do not' is used a negative precept is invariably intended?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it is only'.');">²⁹</span>

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