Yerushalmi Pesachim 6:2 ירושלמי פסחים ו׳:ב׳

MISHNAH: Rebbi Eliezer said, if slaughter which is work⁵⁴Slaughter is one of the 49 categories of work biblically forbidden on the Sabbath. pushes the Sabbath aside, should not these⁵⁵The Mishnah is a continuation of Mishnah 1, where R. Eliezer holds that all actions needed for the Pesaḥ push aside the Sabbath. The discussion in particular is about the list of rabbinically prohibited actions at the end of Mishnah 1, which are permitted by R. Eliezer but prohibited by the Sages (represented by R. Joshua.), which are because of Sabbath rest, push the Sabbath aside? Rebbi Joshua said to him, holiday is a counter example, where He permitted the work but forbade because of Sabbath rest⁵⁶Since preparation of food is permitted on a holiday, slaughter for meat is permitted. But the rules of rabbinic Sabbath rest apply to holiday as to the Sabbath.. Rebbi Eliezer answered whim, what is this, Joshua? What proof is option for obligation⁵⁷Rules of preparation of profane food cannot teach anything for sacrifices.?

HALAKHAH: What does Sabbath rest mean? Did we not state⁷²Mishnah Avot 3:11. Since there is an obligation to honor the holidays, is there not an obligation to slaughter animals for holiday meals. How can R. Eliezer call this optional?, “One who desecrates sancta, or abases the holidays, or breaks the Covenant of our father Abraham, or is insolent against the Torah, even if in his hands are learning and good deeds, has no part in the Future World.” Rebbi Jeremiah said, what is optional⁷³There could have been meals prepared beforehand. There is no religious obligation to slaughter on a holiday, it truly is optional.? If he wants he cooks, if he does not want he does not cook.

Rebbi Yose said, so should Rebbi Eliezer have embarrassed Rebbi Joshua. Does not the festival offering disprove according to your system, where they permitted the category of work but prohibited the category of Sabbath rest⁷⁴Since R. Eliezer is a follower of the House of Shammai, who permit the festival sacrifice to be brought on the holiday but prohibit the (biblically required but purely rabbinically prohibited) laying of hands on the sacrificial animal, he would have to agree that not all rabbinic restrictions are waived on Sabbath and holiday.? He should have answered, no. If you are saying this about the festival offering about which one is not liable for extirpation, what can you say about Pesaḥ where one is liable for extirpation? He also could have objected as in the Mishnah: No, if you are saying this about the holiday about which one is not liable for extirpation, what can you say about Pesaḥ where one is liable for extirpation? It is as Rebbi Immi said, they were rich in answers⁷⁵The same statements Kilaim 2:5 Note 89, Nazir 5:4 Note 109.. Or it may be as Rebbi Nassa said, like a man who has two arguments but he moves one of them.