Commentary for Pesachim 47:16

נמלה לוקה חמש

If so, just as here [it must be destroyed] by burning, so all the forbidden things of the Torah require burning? - Scripture saith, 'the [nothar] remainder': nothar requires burning. but all [other] forbidden things of the Torah do not require burning. Rabina said to R'Ashi: Yet perhaps [it teaches that] he transgresses two negative injunctions on its account?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And is flagellated for each separately. In that case the verse is not superfluous.');">²⁴</span> Did not Abaye say: if he ate putitha<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A small water reptile (sherez) . a young eel, v. Mak., Sonc. ed. p. 116, n. 8.');">²⁵</span> he is flagellated four times;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., four flagellations of the prescribed number of lashes.');">²⁶</span> [for] an ant, he is flagellate five times;

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