Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 141:20

וניתוב ליה כל שבעה (דאמר שמואל חלצתו חמה נותנין לו כל שבעה) דיהבינן ליה כל שבעה ונימהליה מצפרא בעינן

Then<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the child recovered from an illness. ');">⁶⁹</span> let him be granted [a period of convalescence of] full seven days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before circumcision is allowed. ');">⁷⁰</span> for<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cur. edd. encloses in parenthesis 'for&nbsp;… seven days'. ');">⁷¹</span> Samuel said that a child who recovered from a fever must be allowed a period of convalescence of full seven days!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the seven days are passed the child remains unfit for circumcision. How, then, could his state of lawful uncircumcision debar his father from the consumption of the Paschal lamb? ');">⁷²</span> — Where he was already granted the seven days' period.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it expired on the Passover Eve. ');">⁷³</span> He should, then,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra n. 9. ');">⁷⁴</span> have been circumcised in the morning!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., before the time of the preparation of the Paschal lamb; and, since that was not done, the child was in a legal state of uncircumcision not only during the time of eating, but also during the time of the preparation. The difficulty then arises again: What need was there for a Scriptural text to include the prohibition of eating the Paschal lamb while such a child remained uncircumcised, when the preparation that must precede the eating is already forbidden! ');">⁷⁵</span> — We require

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