mourner and the person who opened a heap,(175) and also the person
who has the promise of release from prison, and the sick, and the aged,
who are able to eat the size of an olive?" "They may slaughter the
passover for them." For all of them they must not slaughter the lamb on
their own account alone, lest they bring the passover into contempt,(176)
because there might happen to them some abomination. They are freed from
keeping a second passover--excepting him who in opening the heap was
unclean from the beginning.

7. "They must not slaughter the passover for one person." The words of
Rabbi Judah; but Rabbi Jose "allowed it." Even for a company of a hundred,
when they cannot eat the size of an olive, they must not slaughter the
passover; and they must not form a company of women, of slaves, and of
little ones.

8. A mourner may be baptized, and eat his passover in the evening, but not
other holy things. "He who heard of a death, or had the bones of his
relations collected?" "He may be baptized and eat holy things." "A
stranger who was proselytized on the eve of the passover?" The school of
Shammai say, "He may be baptized and eat his passover in the evening"; but
the school of Hillel say, "he who just departed from the foreskin is as
legally unclean as he who just departs from the grave."

Chapter IX

1. He who was legally unclean, or in a journey afar off, and did not keep
the first, must keep the second (passover). "He mistook it, or was
constrained by force, and did not keep the first?" "He must keep the
second." "If so, why is it said unclean(177) or in a journey afar off?"
"Because such persons are free from being cut off, but those bound to
observe it are to be cut off if they neglect it."

2. What is a "journey afar off?" "From Modiim(178) and outward; and so is
the measure from Jerusalem on every side." The words of Rabbi Akiba; Rabbi
Eleazar said, "from the threshold of the temple-court and outward." Said
R. Jose, "for this reason there is a dot on the 'he,' to explain not that
it is really afar off, but that one is afar off from the threshold of the
temple-court and outward."

3. "What is the difference between the first and second passover?" "The
first passover forbids leaven to be seen or found; but the second allows
unleavened and leavened bread in one's house." The first passover requires
hallel(179) during eating, but the second does not require hallel during
eating. Both require hallel in