Commentary for Pesachim 117:19

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But there is the burnt-offering?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Likewise required by a leper. ibid. 19, 22. This of course was burnt on the altar (v. n. 4) .');">²²</span> And should you answer, The burnt-offering is not indispensable,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the eating of sacred flesh.');">²³</span> surely it was taught. R'Ishmael the son of R'Johanan B'Berokah said: Just as his sin-offering and his guilt-offering are indispensable for him, so is his burnt-offering indispensable for him. And should you answer, It means where he has offered his burnt-offering; yet can his burnt-offering be offered first before his sin-offering? Surely it was taught: And he shall offer that which is for the sin-offeri first:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. V, 8, q.v.');">²⁴</span> for what purpose is this stated? If to teach that it comes before the burnt-offering, surely it is alrea said, And he shall prepare the second for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 10.');">²⁵</span> But this furnishes a general rule for all sin-offerings, that they take precedence of all burnt-offerings which accompany them; and we have an established principle<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Binyan Ab, a building up of a principle (or class) . i.e., a conclusion by analogy.');">²⁶</span> that even a bird sin-offering takes precedence of an animal burnt-offering!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Zeb. 90b.');">²⁷</span> - Said Raba, The burnt-offering of a leper is different, because the Merciful One saith,

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