Commentary for Eruvin 138:8
אימא סיפא חוץ מן המומר והמנסך יין האי מומר היכי דמי אי מומר לכל התורה היינו רישא אי לדבר אחד קשיא מציעתא
in order that they might return in repentance, all except from a mumar, from one who offers libations of wine to idols and from one who publicly desecrates the Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hul. 5a.');"><sup>20</sup></span> Now is not this statement self contradictory: First you said: 'Of you implies: But not all of you, thus excluding a mumar', and then you state, 'Sacrifices may be accepted from transgressors in Israel'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Transgressors' presumably including the mumar also.');"><sup>21</sup></span> This, however, is no contradiction since the first clause might deal with a person who is a mumar in respect of all the Torah, while the intervening clause might refer to one who is a mumar in respect of one precept only.
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