Commentary for Keritot 39:21

נהי דאקדומי נמי לא מקדים אחורי נמי לא מאחר

And if he did not intend to kindle, what is the reason of the one who holds him liable to two? - R'Eleazar and R'Hanina both explained the case as follows: He intended to extinguish the upper coals knowing that this would set the lower ones ablaze.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The man was a blacksmith and his aim was to extinguish the upper coals before their consumption so as to provide big coal lumps for his smithy. The burning of the lower coals was not to his advantage at all.');">⁹</span>

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