Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Makkot 33:12

אמר רבי שמעון מה בא זה ללמדנו אם לאוכלן חוץ לחומה קל וחומר ממעשר הקל ומה מעשר הקל אוכלן חוץ לחומה לוקה בכורים לא כל שכן הא לא בא הכתוב אלא לאוכל מבכורים עד שלא קרא עליהן שהוא לוקה

Rebbi Shimon said, What is this verse coming to teach us? If to [make one liable for eating bikorim] outside the wall [of Jerusalem, then we could have just learned it out from] a kal v'chomer from maiser, which is more lenient, that if one incurs malkus by eating the more lenient example of maiser outside of the wall, then wouldn't one certainly incur malkus for eating bikorim outside of the wall? Rather the Torah only comes to teach us that one who eats bikorim before the verses are recited incurs malkus.

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