Daf Reactions Zevachim 79: Celebrity Sandwich

Shalom friends! The Earl of Sandwich did not invent the first sandwich. He was a fraud! And that matters because In today’s page of #talmud, the sages use The Hillel Special (matzah, bitter herbs, pascal lamb) as a legal case study. Welcome to #DafReactions Zevachim 79: Celebrity Sandwich!
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זבחים ע״ט א:ו׳

מַאן שָׁמְעַתְּ לֵיהּ דְּאָמַר: אֵין מִצְוֹת מְבַטְּלוֹת זוֹ אֶת זוֹ? הִלֵּל הִיא, דְּתַנְיָא: אָמְרוּ עָלָיו עַל הִלֵּל הַזָּקֵן שֶׁהָיָה כּוֹרְכָן בְּבַת אַחַת וְאוֹכְלָן, מִשּׁוּם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״עַל מַצּוֹת וּמְרוֹרִים יֹאכְלוּהוּ״.

Zevachim 79a:6

The Gemara adds: Whom did you hear who says that items used in the performance of mitzvot do not nullify one another? It is Hillel, as it is taught in a baraita: They said about Hillel the Elder that when eating the Paschal offering, matza, and bitter herbs on the first night of Passover, he would wrap them all at once and eat them together, because it is stated with regard to the Paschal offering: “They shall eat it with matzot and bitter herbs” (Numbers 9:11), which indicates that these three foods should be eaten together. Hillel was not concerned that the taste of the bitter herbs would nullify the taste of the matza.

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