Why should we be diminished so as not to offer… Some question: Was it unknown to them that a ritually impure person is prohibited from eating sacred foods? This is difficult according to the Talmud’s version (Pesachim 66b), which derives from the phrase any man that an individual is deferred to the second Pesach but not the community. However, according to the conclusion in the Yalkut (9:2) in the name of the Sifrei (and see Pesachim 77a and Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim 7:4), from the redundancy of in its appointed time, we learn that a communal Pesach offering is brought even in a state of impurity — there is no difficulty. For after they heard the phrase in its appointed time, they said, Why should we be diminished from the community? And the answer came, Any man — specifically an individual is deferred, but not the community. And these men understood that when Moses said to the children of Israel to keep the Pesach at its appointed time — even in impurity — but did not say so to them specifically, it implied that he excluded them from the general rule. Otherwise, what was the purpose of saying to the children of Israel to keep the Pesach? They were already commanded and obligated to do so! Rather, it came to exclude the individually impure ones. Therefore they said, Why should we be diminished?