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Never Too Late, Until It Is

The Rambam finishes the Paschal offering with the second Pesach, an entire makeup date built for people who missed the first one, and then opens the next treatise by telling a man who missed the festival offering that his loss can never be repaired. Both rulings sit two pages apart. Which one is the truth about time?

Korban Pesach 9-10, Chagigah 1Monday, August 3, 2026

Never Too Late, Until It Is

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Korban Pesach 9 keeps the offering inside one house and one company and rules that the doorframe itself counts as outside, Korban Pesach 10 protects the bones of an offering that was once acceptable even after it is ruined while leaving an offering that was never acceptable unprotected, and Chagigah 1 opens the festival offering with three commandments, a floor of silver, and a festival that ends without a second date.