Commentary for Keritot 8:75
אלא אימא
But [it may be retorted], if [I had] the first text [only to go by], I would say it is subject only of a positive command, but not of a negative command.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lashes are inflicted only for the transgression of a prohibitory law and not for the omission of a positive injunction. The prohibition derived by implication from a positive commandment bears in this respect the status of a positive commandment.');"><sup>42</sup></span>
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