Commentary for Sanhedrin 124:1
הכי תנא קמיה חומר בשבת משאר מצות חומר בשאר מצות מבשבת חומר בשבת שהשבת עשה שתים בהעלם אחד חייב על כל אחת ואחת מה שאין כן בשאר מצות חומר בשאר מצות שבשאר מצות שגג בלא מתכוין חייב מה שאין כן בשבת
This is the teaching which he [R. Zakkai] recited to him [R. Johanan]: [In one respect] the Sabbath is more stringent than other precepts; [in another,] it is the reverse. Now the Sabbath is more stringent than other precepts — in that if one did two acts of work in one state of unawareness, he must make atonement for each separately; this is not so in the case of other precepts. Other precepts are more stringent than the Sabbath, for in their case, if an injunction was unwittingly and unintentionally violated, atonement must be made: this is not so with respect to the Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Talmud discusses further on what is meant by unwittingly and unintentionally. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
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