Commentary for Menachot 26:17

איבעית אימא סברא לא עדיפא מחשבה ממעשה הטומאה אילו איטמי חד אבר מי איטמי ליה כוליה ואיבעית אימא קרא (ויקרא ז, יח) והנפש האוכלת ממנו עונה תשא ממנו ולא מחבירו

BUT THE SAGES SAY, BOTH ARE PIGGUL AND THE PENALTY OF KARETH IS INCURRED ON ACCOUNT OF THEM. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>R'Huna said, R'Jose maintains that if one expressed an intention which makes piggul in connection with the right thigh, the left thigh is not thereby rendered piggul.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if a person while slaughtering the sacrifice expressed the intention of eating the right thigh outside the time prescribed for it, that thigh only is piggul and whosoever eats of it incurs the penalty of kareth, but the rest of the flesh of the animal is not piggul. R. Huna arrived at this by taking R. Jose's view expressed in our Mishnah to an extreme length; viz., just as each loaf is a separate body or entity and the wrongful intention with regard to one loaf will not affect the other, so is each limb a separate body and the wrongful intention with regard to one limb will not affect the other.');">²⁰</span>

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