Commentary for Keritot 36:17

ואת לא תסברא דידיעות ספק מחלקות לחטאות

Said Raba B'Hanan to Abaye: Also according to you, who hold that the awareness of the doubt separates the acts for sin-offerings, it should follow that if one ate an olive's bulk of heleb before the Day of Atonement and again an olive's bulk of heleb after the Day of Atonement - since the Day of Atonement is equivalent to a suspensive guilt-offering - he should have to bring two sin-offerings; but this cannot be, for he ate [at both times] in one spell of unawareness!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Day of Atonement atones for doubtful trespasses (v. infra 25a) , and one is exempt from a suspensive guilt-offering for transgressions committed before that day. If each olive's bulk in our instance was of doubtful heleb, he is only liable but once, viz., for the second; yet taking into consideration the intervening Day of Atonement, which has the effect of a suspensive guilt-offering, it is as if he offered two such guilt-offerings. According to the quoted rule he should in the corresponding case of certain heleb be liable to two sin-offerings, which is tkt untenable, because both sins were committed in one spell of unawareness. The rule is thus proved to be incorrect. V. Tosaf. s.v. .');">¹⁰</span>

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