Commentary for Keritot 55:23

שיכול והלא דין הוא

For [without this text] I would have argued [the reverse] by a fortiori reasoning thus: if in a case where the lot does not sanctify<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case where a pair of birds is prescribed, the casting of lots to determine which shall be the sin-offering and which the burnt-offering is not decisive, and they may be interchanged, for the casting of lots is prescribed as a rite only for the two goats of the Day of Atonement.');">¹⁷</span>

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