Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 10:13

והיה בך חטא ולא בקרבנך חטא והא מהכא נפקא מדאחרים נפקא דתניא אחרים אומרים יכול יהא בכור שעברה שנתו כפסולי המוקדשין ויפסל

But [if that is so,] seeing that it cannot be offered, why do require a text to exclude it? - R'Shesheth replied: In point of fact, [the intention of the verse is] to exclud the substitutes for burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and we are dealing here with the case of one which was kept over during two festivals and then became blemished and the owner made it profane by substituting another and this was kept over one festival. You might imagine in this case that since it takes the place of the first, it is as if it had been kept over for three festivals; therefore we are told that this i so.

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