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קשיא מליקה אמליקה, קשיא הקטרה אהקטרה!
There seems to be a contradiction between the ruling in the first baraita with regard to pinching and the ruling in the second baraita with regard to pinching. In addition, there seems to be a contradiction between the ruling in the first baraita with regard to burning and the ruling in the second baraita with regard to burning. The first baraita rules that one who burns the sacrificial parts is included in the prohibition but that one who pinches the neck of a bird-offering is not, and the second baraita says the opposite.
ולטעמיך, תיקשי לך היא גופא. דקתני: לא אמרו אלא בפסח בלבד, והדר תני: אחד השוחט ואחד הזורק ואחד המולק ואחד המזה!
The Talmud responds: And according to your reasoning that both baraitot refer to the same issue, ask about the baraita itself, as first it teaches: They said that this prohibition applies only to the Paschal lamb, and then it teaches that whether he slaughters the animal or he sprinkles the blood, or he pinches a bird-offering, or he sprinkles the blood of the bird-offering onto the altar, he is liable. Pinching and sprinkling the bird’s blood apply to bird-offerings but not to the Paschal lamb.
אלא: הא והא רבי שמעון. מליקה אמליקה לא קשיא: כאן — בארבעה עשר, כאן — בחולו של מועד. ואידי ואידי רבי שמעון היא.
Rather, say instead that both this baraita and that baraita express the opinion of R' Shimon. And there is no contradiction between the ruling in the first baraita about pinching and the ruling in the second baraita about pinching: Here, where it says that one who pinches does not transgress, it is referring to the 14th of Nisan, while there, where it says that one who pinches does transgress, it is talking about the intermediate days of the festival of Passover. And both this baraita and that baraita express the opinion of R' Shimon, who maintains that the prohibition does not apply to other sacrifices on the 14th of Nisan but does apply to them during the intermediate days of Passover, as explained in the Mishnah.