Tosefta for Pesachim 128:8
תנו רבנן מעולם לא נתמעך אדם בעזרה חוץ מפסח אחד שהיה בימי הלל שנתמעך בו זקן אחד והיו קוראין אותו פסח מעוכין
And as to what we learned, R'Judah said: Heaven forfend that Akabia B'Mehalallel was banned! for the wisdom and fear of sin to Akabia B'Mehalallel,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. 'Ed. V, 6 for the whole discussion. 'Was never closed' - on the eve of Passover, at the sacrificing of the Paschal lambs.');"><sup>7</sup></span> - Abaye explains Temple Court was never closed upon any man in Israel equal in it according to his view, [while] Raba explains it according to his view.
Tosefta Pesachim
One time King [Herod] Agrippa sought to find out how many were the multitudes [of Israelites], and he said to the Kohanim, separate for me a kidney from each and every Passover offering, and they separated for him six hundred thousand pairs of kidneys, double the number of the exodus from Egypt, and there was not any Passover offering that did not have at least ten registrants, not including those who [could not attend because they] were impure or that had too long of a distance to travel. On that day, they entered the Temple Mount and it could not hold all of them, and they called it the "Passover of the crushed."
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