Commentary for Menachot 112:6

בעל מום מעיקרא דיקלא בעלמא הוא

Now if one is liable for cutting how much more so for tearing off! [Wherefore is the latter mentioned? ] To teach that one is also liable if one tears them away after they were already cut. They<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., R. Meir and the above Rabbis who differ concerning the propriety of blemishing a beast which is already blemished, for here the firstling is indeed blemished by reason of its congestion which would prove fatal if it were not bled.');">⁴</span>

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