Commentary for Pesachim 183:13

אונן הא דאמרן

or enclosures.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Karpf, pl. karpifoth, is an enclosure not more than two se'ahs in area (this is slightly over seventy cubits square) . If the eighth day of birth, when a child must be circumcised (v. Lev. XII, 3) , falls on the Sabbath, the knife must be brought the previous day. If it was forgotten, however, it must not be brought on the Sabbath, even by way of roofs, etc., carrying on which is forbidden by Rabbinical law only, and circumcision must be postponed, notwithstanding that failure to circumcise involves kareth (Gen. XVII, 14) . - Actually no kareth would be incurred in the present case, since it would be done another day, but Raba means that to the precept of circumcision there is attached the penalty of kareth.');">¹⁵</span> 'An onen,' as we have stated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Mishnah and p. 490. n. 4.');">¹⁶</span>

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