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ואיבעית אימא, רב דאמר כרבי יהושע. דתניא, רבי יהושע אומר: כל הזבחים שבתורה בין שנטמא בשר וחלב קיים, בין שנטמא חלב ובשר קיים — זורק את הדם.
And if you wish, say that Rav, who said that, according to the Mishnah, if one did sprinkle the blood it is accepted, holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehoshua, that eating the Paschal lamb is not essential. As it was taught in a baraita that R' Yehoshua says: With regard to all offerings in the Torah, whether the meat became ritually impure and the fat remains pure, or the fat became ritually impure and the meat remains pure, one may sprinkle the blood.
נזיר ועושה פסח, נטמא חלב ובשר קיים — זורק את הדם. נטמא בשר וחלב קיים — אין זורק את הדם, ואם זרק — הורצה.
With regard to the offerings of a nazirite and one who performs the ritual of a Paschal lamb, if the fat became impure and the meat remains pure, one may sprinkle the blood. If the meat became impure and the fat remains pure, one may not sprinkle the blood because eating the offering is a part of the mitzva itself and the impure meat may not be eaten. However, if he sprinkled the blood, it was accepted.
נטמאו הבעלים במת — לא יזרוק, ואם זרק — לא הורצה.
If the owners became ritually impure from a corpse and therefore cannot eat the offering, one may not sprinkle the blood; and if one sprinkled it, it was not accepted. Although failure to eat the offering does not preclude it from being accepted, that rule applies only when the owner of the offering is personally fit to eat it.
במוקדשין אינו כן וכו׳. מתניתין מני?
It was taught in the Mishnah: With regard to other offerings it is not so; even if the meat has become ritually impure, if the fat remains pure, the blood is sprinkled on the altar. The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna of the Mishnah?