Commentary for Shabbat 141:4

מילתא דפשיטא להו לאביי ורבא מבעיא לר' זירא דבעי רבי זירא מרבי אסי ואמרי לה בעא מיניה רבי ירמיה מרבי זירא קצר וטחן חצי גרוגרת בשגגת שבת וזדון מלאכות וחזר וקצר וטחן חצי גרוגרת בזדון שבת ושגגת מלאכות מהו שיצטרפו אמר ליה חלוקין לחטאות ולא מצטרפין

Abaye maintained: Even if he offers a sacrifice for the first, all are expiated! — After hearing from Abaye he adopted it. If so, let grinding too be carried along with grinding?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As Abaye rules above. ');">¹⁰</span> — He accepts the theory of [direct], but not that of indirect involvement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'involvement of involvement'. Thus the first act of grinding is atoned for only because it is involved in the atonement for reaping; hence this in turn cannot involve the second act of grinding. ');">¹¹</span> The matter that is clear to Abaye and Raba<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., that awareness of the Sabbath and ignorance of the forbidden nature of one's labours followed by the reverse constitute a single state of unawareness, though the first differs in kind from the second, and the two states or periods are not separate in respect to sacrifice, but sacrifice for one makes atonement for the other. ');">¹²</span>

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