Commentary for Menachot 216:4
משום דהוה ליה גדול והביא קטן ואף על גב דנסתאב לכתחילה לא שרי רבי
Rabbi does not permit it in the first instance. Should he not then differ in the first case too?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the first clause of our Mishnah which reads: [IF A MAN SAID,] 'THIS OX SHALL BE A BURNT-OFFERING', AND IT SUFFERED A BLEMISH, HE MAY, IF HE SO DESIRES, BRING TWO WITH THE PRICE THEREOF. According to Rabbi this, too, should be forbidden, for it is like the case where a man vowed a small animal and he brought a large one.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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