Commentary for Keritot 45:42

חתיכת חלב וחתיכת קדש [כו'] חתיכת חלב וחתיכת חלב קודש כו' חתיכת חלב וחתיכת חלב נותר כו':

one and therefore takes effect on the existing lighter prohibition regarding things offered [upon the altar], [I might retort], behold the prohibition of nebelah is light and that of the Day of Atonement is stringent, and yet the latter does not take effect on the former! - One must say that in connection with consecrated things the Divine Law has revealed that one prohibition can take effect on an existing prohibition,

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