Once completed

<<their cooking,

<<they are fit [again].

Abaye said to him:

<<And according to your reasoning,

<<let it be difficult for you

<<pots

<<in general,

<<for

<<ordinary

<<pots

<<of the world

<<at twilight

<<are boiling,

<<and at night

<<we eat

<<from them!

Rather,

<<its completion

<<by human hands

<<is not a question for us;

<<where it is a question for us is

<<its completion

<<by the hands of Heaven.

Rabbi Yehuda Nesia

<<had

<<a certain

<<firstborn.

<<He sent it

<<before

<<Rabbi Ami;

<<he thought

<<not

<<to examine it.

<<Rabbi Zerika said to him,

<<and some say

<<Rabbi Yirmeya:

<<Rabbi Yehuda

<<and Rabbi Shimon —

<<the halacha is

<<like Rabbi Yehuda.

<<Again

<<he sent it

<<before

<<Rabbi Yitzchak Nappacha;

<<he thought

<<not

<<to examine it.

<<Rabbi Yirmeya said to him,

<<and some say

<<Rabbi Zerika:

<<Rabbi Yehuda

<<and Rabbi Shimon —

<<the halacha is

<<like Rabbi Yehuda.

Rabbi Abba said to him:

<<why

<<not

<<did you let

<<the Rabbis

<<act

<<in practice

<<like Rabbi Shimon?

<<He said to him:

<<And you,

<<what

<<is in your hand?

<<He said to him:

<<thus

<<Rabbi Zeira said:

<<the halacha is

<<like Rabbi Shimon.

Said

<<someone:

<<may I merit

<<and go up

<<there,

<<and learn

<<the teaching

<<from the mouth

<<of its master.

<<When

<<he went up

<<there,

<<he found

<<Rabbi Zeira;

<<he said to him:

<<did say

<<the master:

<<the halacha is

<<like Rabbi Shimon?

<<He said to him:

<<No;

<<I

<<“it stands to reason”

<<said.

Since it teaches

<<in our Mishnah:

<<Rabbi Shimon

<<says:

<<any

<<that is not

<<its blemish

<<recognizable

<<while it was still day [before Yom Tov],

<<is not

<<this

<<of

<<what is prepared,

<<and it teaches it

<<in the Baraisa

<<in the language of

<<the Sages —

<<learn from it:

<<it stands to reason

<<like him.

What came of it?

<<Rav Yosef said:

<<Come and hear

<<what is hung

<<on ropes

<<great:

<<for Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi said in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi in the name of Rabbi Yosei ben Shaul in the name of Rebbi

<<in the name of

<<the holy congregation

<<of Jerusalem:

<<Rabbi Shimon

<<and his colleagues

<<said:

<<the halacha is

<<like Rabbi Meir.

They said?

<<But

<<they

<<are older

<<than him

<<by much!

<<Rather:

<<according to the approach of

<<Rabbi Meir

<<they said it.

As we learned:

<<one who slaughters

<<the firstborn

<<and afterward

<<showed

<<its blemish —

<<Rabbi Yehuda

<<permits;

<<and Rabbi Meir

<<says:

<<since

<<it was slaughtered

<<not by the word of

<<an expert,

<<it is prohibited.

<<Evidently

<<holds

<<Rabbi Meir:

<<the examination of

<<a firstborn

<<is not

<<like the examination of

<<a treifa;

<<the examination of

<<a firstborn

<<is while alive,

<<the examination of

<<a treifa

<<after slaughter.

And from it:

<<the examination of

<<a treifa,

<<even

<<on Yom Tov;

<<the examination of

<<a firstborn,

<<on the eve of Yom Tov.

Abaye said to him:

<<is it so that

<<there

<<about examining

<<blemishes

<<they disagree?

<<About a penalty

<<they disagree,

<<as said

<<Rabba bar bar Chana,

<<Rabbi Yochanan said:

<<with membranes

<<of the eye

<<everyone

<<agrees

<<that it is prohibited,

<<because

<<they change.

Where

<<they disagree is

<<with blemishes

<<of the body.

<<Rabbi Meir

<<holds:

<<we decree

<<blemishes

<<of the body

<<because of

<<blemishes

<<of the eye;

<<and Rabbi Yehuda

<<holds:

<<we do not

<<decree.

Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak said:

<<our Mishnah

<<also

<<is precise [so],

<<for it teaches:

<<Rabbi Meir

<<says:

<<since

<<it was slaughtered

<<not by the word of

<<an expert,

<<it is prohibited.

<<Learn from it:

<<a penalty

<<it is

<<that he imposes.

<<Learn from it.

Ami of Vardina

<<examined

<<the firstborns

<<of the house of the Nasi

<<he was [the one].

<<On Yom Tov

<<not

<<would he

<<examine.

<<They came

<<and said [it]

<<to

<<Rabbi Ami;

<<he said to them:

<<well

<<he does

<<that he does not

<<examine.

<<Is that so?

<<But

<<Rabbi Ami

<<himself

<<examined!

<<Rabbi Ami,

<<when

<<he examined,

<<from yesterday

<<he would

<<examine,