Commentary for Shevuot 15:9

אמר רב כהנא אנן חלק להקל קאמרינן והאי חלק להחמיר הוא

Then include a woman after childbirth, for the text differentiates in her case in that she brings a sliding scale sacrifice?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XII, 6-8. If the Day of Atonement arrives before the time when she has to bring her sacrifice, let us say that the inner goat has already atoned for her, and she need not bring a sacrifice.');">¹²</span> - R'Hoshaia said: [The verse says,] all their sins,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XVI, 16. The inner goat atones for sins; but the woman, in giving birth to a child, has not committed a sin; she brings a sacrifice merely to cleanse her from her uncleanness, so that she may partake of holy food.');">¹³</span>

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