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Two men agree without saying a word, a plaza full of people understands exactly what passed between them, and the Rambam rules that neither one owes the other anything at all. Then he takes everyone who missed the offering entirely and sends them to a second Pesach, telling them it is not a make up but a festival in its own right, with karet attached. Why is the law so unyielding about the moment and so generous about the calendar?
The Stipulation and the Second Festival
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Korban Pesach 3 repairs nearly every mishap with a sentence spoken aloud, the forgetful agent's stipulation and the two companies who trade a member and declare the condition over their intermingled lambs, and then rules that an unspoken agreement plain to every onlooker creates nothing at all. Chapter 4 turns to offerings whose flaw lies in the owner rather than the animal, burnt after a night rather than at once, and to the ancient national stipulation that leaves the leftover Pesach money ordinary. Chapter 5 gives the second Pesach to the impure, the distant and the delayed, and insists it is an independent festival, so that missing it carries a karet of its own.