Commentary for Pesachim 70:20

ואיסורא דחמץ להיכן אזלא אמר רב ששת הא מני ר' שמעון היא דאמר אין איסור חל על איסור דתניא ר' שמעון אומר

for the Divine Law stated, Then he shall give the money and it shall be assured to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e.,it can be redeemed by money, but not by land. Actually there is no such verse, but v. B.M., Sonc. ed. p. 321, n. 1.');">²⁶</span> Our Rabbis taught: One might think that a man can discharge his obligation with tebel which was not made ready.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For eating, by separating the priestly and the Levitical dues.');">²⁷</span> .<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the first, second, fourth, and fifth years after the 'years of release' (shemittah) the first and second tithes were separated. In the third and sixth years, the first and third tithes were separated, the latter being a poor tithe, i.e., it belonged to the poor.');">²⁸</span> Whence do we know it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That he cannot discharge his obligation therewith.');">²⁹</span> Because it is stated, thou shalt not eat leavened bread with it:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XVI, 3.');">³⁰</span> teaching, [you must eat of] that the interdict of which is on account of 'thou shalt not eat leavened bread with it', thus this excluded, for its interdict is not on account of 'thou shalt not eat leavened bread with it' but on account of 'thou shalt not eat tebel'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the unleavened bread which one must eat must be such that, if leavened, it would be forbidden because it is leavened. But in the case of tebel, if it were leavened it would be forbidden because it is tebel.');">³¹</span> Yet whither has the interdict of leaven gone?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely it is still forbidden on account of leaven, tebel merely being an additional prohibition?');">³²</span> - Said R'Shesheth, The author of this is R'Simeon, who maintained, A prohibition cannot fall<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., become operative.');">³³</span> upon another prohibition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when a thing is already forbidden on one score, another interdict cannot become operative at the same time. Thus here the prohibition of tebel is earlier; consequently the fact that it subsequently became leaven too is ignored, and it is regarded as prohibited on account of tebel only.');">³⁴</span> For it was taught, R'Simeon said:

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