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because by standing on the eve of the Festival and saying: This bird and that bird I will take on the Festival, he would have effected sufficient preparation for their use on the Festival. The Talmud responds: These, the offspring and the eggs, were new produce, which Levi bar Shimon himself had no
Mishnah: A person may not take the mother bird with the offspring even if he takes the mother for use as part of the ritual to purify the metzora. The Mishnah compares the reward for performing the mitzva of sending away the mother bird from the nest to the reward for performing other mitzvot: And
Talmud: The school of R' Ya’akov taught that R' Ya’akov says: There is not a single mitzva written in the Torah whose reward is stated alongside it, which is not dependent on a belief in the resurrection of the dead, i.e., the reward is actually bestowed in the World-to-Come, after the resurrectio
Despite this, it occurred that there was one whose father said to him: Climb to the top of the building and bring me fledglings; and he climbed to the top of the building and sent away the mother bird and took the offspring, thereby simultaneously fulfilling the mitzva to send away the mother bird
The Talmud suggests: But perhaps this incident described by R' Ya’akov never occurred. It is possible that everyone who performs these mitzvot is rewarded in this world, and the situation described by R' Ya’akov never happened. The Talmud answers: R' Ya’akov himself saw an incident of this kind. Th