Rosh Hashanah

just as on the feast of Passover [the celebrant is] required to stay overnight1 [in Jerusalem], so on the feast of Tabernacles he is required to stay overnight. How do we know this in the case of Passover? — Because it is written,2 And thou shalt turn in the morning and go unto thy tents.3 But whence then do the First Tanna and R. Simeon4 derive the rule of compensation for the Feast of Weeks? — They derive it from the statement of Rabbah b. Samuel; for Rabbah b. Samuel stated: The Torah said, Count days5 and sanctify the new moon,6 count days and sanctify the Feast of Weeks,7 [indicating that] just as the new moon [is sanctified for the period corresponding with the unit of time] by which it is counted,8 so the Feast of Weeks [is sanctified for the period corresponding with the unit of time] by which it is counted.9 [In that case] I should say that [the compensation period of] the Feast of Weeks is only one day?10 — Raba replied: Do we count only days to the Feast of Weeks and not weeks [also]? Has not a Master said, It is a mizwah to count days and it is also a mizwah to count weeks?11 And further, we read in the text, ‘the feast of weeks’.12 But can the paschal lamb13 be offered on any of the festivals? The paschal lamb [surely] has a fixed date:14 if it is brought then, well and goods but if not, it is rejected?15 — R. Hisda replied: The paschal lamb is mentioned incidentally. R. Shesheth said: ‘Paschal lamb’ here means the peace-offering [brought] in lieu of the paschal lamb.16 But if that is so, this is covered by the term peace-offerings’?17 — Our authority mentions the peace-offering [which is brought] in lieu of the paschal lamb and he also mentions the peace-offerings which are brought for their own sake. You might be inclined to think that [the former] being brought in lieu of the paschal lamb to bring his festival offering. month (Num. XI, 19, 20). another was declared to be a peace-offering in its place, and this came under the rule of ‘not delaying’.