Quotation for Pesachim 5:7

יָצְתָה כַת רִאשׁוֹנָה וְנִכְנְסָה כַת שְׁנִיָּה. יָצְתָה שְׁנִיָּה, נִכְנְסָה שְׁלִישִׁית. כְּמַעֲשֵׂה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה כָּךְ מַעֲשֵׂה הַשְּׁנִיָּה וְהַשְּׁלִישִׁית. קָרְאוּ אֶת הַהַלֵּל. אִם גָּמְרוּ שָׁנוּ, וְאִם שָׁנוּ שִׁלְּשׁוּ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁלֹּא שִׁלְּשׁוּ מִימֵיהֶם. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, מִימֵיהֶם שֶׁל כַּת שְׁלִישִׁית לֹא הִגִּיעַ לְאָהַבְתִּי כִּי יִשְׁמַע ה', מִפְּנֵי שֶׁעַמָּהּ מֻעָטִין:

After the first group left, the second group entered. After the second group left, the third group entered. As it was done with the first group, so was it done with the second and the third. They [all three groups] recited the Hallel. If they completed it, they repeated it. [When they started to slaughter (the Pesach), they started to recite the Hallel. If there were so many offerings that they finished the Hallel before they had finished slaughtering, and there were still many to slaughter, they would recite it a second time.] And if they recited it a second time [and the slaughtering of the offerings of that group had not yet been completed], they would recite it a third time, [and so with the second and third groups.] R. Yehudah says: All the days of the third group, they never reached (in the Hallel): "Ahavti ki yishma Hashem," [even the first time], for it was very small.

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