Commentary for Pesachim 125:2

הילכך הקדים מולין לערלים מולין חיילי ערלים לא חיילי הקדים ערלים למולין ערלים חיילי מולין לא חיילי

- Said Rabbah, Not so: in truth the 'others' hold [that] slaughtering counts from beginning to end, but the case we discuss here is this: e.g. , where he mentally determined [it] for both of them, [i.e.,] both for circumcised and for uncircumcised, and he verbally expressed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'uttered with his mouth'.');">³</span> [his intention] for uncircumcised, but he had no time to say, 'for the circumcised' before the slaughtering was completed with [the expressed intention of] the uncircumcised [alone], and they differ in this: R'Meir holds [that] we do not require his mouth and his heart [to be] the same [in intention];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., we merely regard the explicit intention. Hence since he mentioned the uncircumcised only, the sacrifice is unfit.');">⁴</span> while the Rabbis hold, We require his mouth and his heart [to be] the same.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., both are regarded. Therefore the Mishnah supra ');">⁵</span>

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