Hermeneutics versus Tradition

Our sages have taught: This law was concealed from the Bnei Betera.¹

Once the fourteenth [day of Nisan] fell on the Sabbath. They forgot and did not know whether the Passover [sacrifice] supersedes the Sabbath or not. They said, “Is there anyone here who knows whether the Passover supersedes the Sabbath or not?”

They said to them, “There is one man…