Reference for Shabbat 263:25

מ"ט ק"ו הוא ומה צרע' שדוחה את העבודה

is required [for teaching], by day but not by night? That is deduced from, and he that is eight days old.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVII. 12. ');">²³</span> But this too can be derived from, in the day that he commanded [the children of Israel to offer their oblations, etc.]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VII, 38. ');">²⁴</span> — Though it may be derived from, in the day that he commanded, [etc.]', yet it [the other verse] is necessary: you might argue, Since the Merciful One had compassion upon him, [permitting him] to bring [a lesser sacrifice] in poverty, he may bring [it] at night too: hence we are informed [otherwise]. Rabina demurred: If so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the leniency shown in poverty might be regarded as permitting other things which normally invalidate the sacrifice. ');">²⁵</span> let a zar and an onen<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. for both. ');">²⁶</span> be eligible for them?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. to offer these sacrifices. A zar may kill the sacrifice, but cannot perform any of the other services in connection therewith. ');">²⁷</span> Surely Scripture brought him back.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In fact we see that this leniency was not extended to permission to offer at night: thus in all other respects the poor are governed by the same rules as the rich. ');">²⁸</span> R. Aha b. Jacob said, Scripture saith, 'the eighth', [intimating] the eighth, even if it is the Sabbath. But this 'eighth' is required to exclude the seventh? — That follows from, 'and the that is eight days old'. Yet they are still required, one to exclude the seventh and the other to exclude the ninth, for if [we deduced] from one [verse only] I might say, only the seventh is excluded, since its time [for circumcision] has not [yet] arrived, but from the eighth onward that is the [right] time? Hence it is clear [that it must be explained] as R. Johanan. It was taught in accordance with R. Johanan and not as R. Aha b. Jacob: '[And in] the eighth [day the flesh of his foreskin] shall be circumcised': even on the Sabbath. Then to what do I apply, every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXI, 14. ');">²⁹</span> To labours other than circumcision. Yet perhaps it is not so, but [it includes] even circumcision, whilst to what do I apply 'in the eighth... shall be circumcised': [To all days] except the Sabbath? Therefore 'in the day' is stated, [teaching], even on the Sabbath. Raba observed: Why was this Tanna content at first, and what was his difficulty eventually?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why does he assume at first that the eighth naturally supersedes the Sabbath, whereas subsequently he finds a difficulty in this assumption and proposes to reverse it? ');">³⁰</span> — He argues thus: '[in] the eighth shall be circumcised': even on the Sabbath. Then to what do I apply, every one that profaneth it shall be put to death'? To labours other than circumcision, but circumcision supersedes it. What is the reason? It [follows] a minori. If leprosy, which suspends the sacrificial service,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is stated infra b that one may not cut away a leprous bright spot in order to be clean, and this holds good even on Passover: individuals may not do so in order to bring the Passover sacrifice, nor may Priests to enable them to perform the sacrificial service. ');">³¹</span>

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