Commentary for Pesachim 89:5

אמרי הנהו מיצריך צריכי

Hence whatever is fit for a stranger is designated nebelah, but what is unfit is not designated nebelah, in the sense that if it imparts a deteriorating flavour it does not render the food forbidden. Then, according to the Rabbis too, let a nazirite and a sin-offering be two verses with the same teaching and they do not illumine [other cases]? - They can answer: these are indeed [both] necessary.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And where that is so, they do illuminate other cases, since neither could be deduced from the other.');">⁷</span>

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