Quoting%20commentary for Pesachim 139:5

מ"ט דבן תימא כדמתני רב לחייא בריה (שמות לד, כה) ולא ילין לבקר זבח חג הפסח זבח חג זה חגיגה הפסח כמשמעו ואמר רחמנא לא ילין

The Scholars asked: According to the son of Tema, is it subject to [the prohibition of] breaking a bone, or is it not subject to [the prohibition of] breaking a bone? [Do we say,] though the Divine Law assimilated it to the Passover, yet the Writ saith, '[neither shall ye break a bone] thereof,' [implying] 'thereof,' but not of the hagigah;' or perhaps, this 'thereof comes [to teach], of a fit [sacrifice], but not of an unfit one? - Come and hear: If a [slaughtering] knife is found on the fourteenth, one may slaughter with it immediately; [if it is found] on the thirteenth he must repeat the tebillah. [If he finds] a chopper. whether on the one or on the other, he must repeat the tebillah. Who [is the authority for this]? Shall we say the Rabbis? wherein does a [slaughtering] knife differ, that we assume that it had been immersed; because it is fit for [slaughtering] the Passover? Then a chopper too, surely it is fit for [breaking the bones of] the hagigah ? Hence it must be [the view] of the son of Tema, which proves that it is subject to [the prohibition of] breaking a bone! - No: in truth [it is the view of] the Rabbis, and [this was taught] e.g., when it [the Passover] comes on the Sabbath. But since the second clause teaches, If the fourteenth occurred on the Sabbath, he may slaughter with it immediately; and [likewise if he finds it] on the fifteenth, he may slaughter with it immediately; if a chopper is found tied to a knife, it is as the knife, it follows that the first clause does not treat of the Sabbath? - Rather it means that it [the Passover] readiness for slaughtering the Passover on the fourteenth. We disregard the possibility that the owner may have lost it some time ago, for Jerusalem was thronged at Passover and it could not have lain long without being discovered, came<br>

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