Commentary for Shevuot 15:19

לא צריכא דאתידע ליה סמוך לשקיעת החמה ס"ד אמינא אדמייתי

R'Simeon argues well. [Why then does not] R'Judah [accept this deduction]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Instead of deducing it from the fact that Holy Writ differentiates in the case of the uncleanness connected with Temple and holy food; v. supra p. 26.');">²⁸</span> - He may say to you that [and he shall make atonement.] is required [to teach us] that just as he does in the Holy of Holies,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVI, 14, 15.');">²⁹</span> so shall he do [outside the veil] in the Temple. And how does R'Simeon [deduce this]? - He deduces it from and so shall he do.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 16.');">³⁰</span> And R'Judah [cannot he also deduce it from this phrase? - No!] From this phrase we might have thought that he must bring another bullock and goat to do [the service outside the veil in the Temple], therefore the text teaches us [and he shall make atonement for the holy place, implying that he shall use the same bullock and goat, and so shall he do means that he shall repeat the service outside the veil]. And R'Simeon [why does he not agree with this argument of R'Judah? - Because the phrase] and so shall he do for the tent of meeting implies everything.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That he shall repeat the service outside the veil; and it would not have entered our minds to think that he should bring an extra bullock and goat. Therefore the phrase and he shall make atonement for the holy place, of the uncleannesses is superfluous, and hence may of be utilised for the deduction that the inner goat atones only for the uncleannesses of the holy place, i.e., Temple and holy food.');">³¹</span> The Master stated: 'I might have thought that for every uncleanness connected with the Temple and holy food this goat atones, therefore the text says: and of their transgressions, even all their sins [- sins are equated with transgressions; just as transgressions are not liable for sacrifice, so sins in this verse are thos which are not liable for sacrifice: but a sin which is liable for sacrifice is exclude, i,e. , the inner goat doe atone for it].'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p 26.');">³²</span> Which is it [that is excluded]? Where there is knowledge at the beginning and at the end. [Surely for such a sin] the transgressor must bring a sliding scale sacrifice!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why then do we require the deduction to exclude such a sin from the atonement effected by the inner goat.');">³³</span> The deduction is not necessary save in the case where the sin becomes known to the transgressor near sunset [on the eve of the Day of Atonement].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When there is no time to bring the sliding scale sacrifice, as sacrifices are offered only during the day-time (v. Meg. 20b) .');">³⁴</span> I might have thought that [in the meantime] until he brings his sacrifice,

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