Commentary for Shevuot 19:21

והא כי כתיב אחת בשעיר הנעשה בפנים הוא דכתיב אמר קרא (במדבר כט, יא) מלבד

they made a full month [of thirty days], as it is written: He hath called a solemn assembly [or, festival] against me to crush my young men.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lam. I, 15: according to Abaye the verse means this: He called a mo'ed, (festival) , i.e., He intercalated an extra day, making Tammuz 30 days, so that the 30th day was proclaimed New Moon (festival) , in order to crush my young men, in order that the night of weeping (9th of Ab) would coincide with the date my young men were to be crushed centuries later at the time of the destruction of the Temple.');">¹⁰</span> R'Johanan said: R'Meir agrees that the goat offered within [the veil on the Day of Atonement] does not atone their<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The outer goat of the Day of Atonement, festival and New Moon goats.');">¹¹</span> atonements, nor do they atone his atonement. He does not atone their atonements: he atones one atonement, and does not atone two atonements;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 8b.');">¹²</span> they do not atone his atonement, for the verse says: once in the year [shall he make atonement]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXX, 10; supra 8b.');">¹³</span> - this atonement shall be only once in the year. It was likewise taught [in a Baraitha]: For a case where there is no knowledge either at the beginning or at the end, and for a case where there is no knowledge at the beginning but knowledge at the end, and for a clean man who ate unclean holy food, the festival goats and the New Moon goats and the goat offered outside [the veil on the Day of Atonement] bring atonement: this is the opinion of R'Meir. The inner goat, however, he leaves out, and that they [the others] atone [his atonement] he also leaves out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He does not include the inner goat with the others; nor does he say that the other goats atone (or hold in suspense) where there is knowledge at the beginning but not at the end.');">¹⁴</span> NOW, R'SIMEON SAYS THE NEW MOON GOATS ATONE FOR A CLEAN MAN WHO ATE UNCLEAN HOLY FOOD, etc. Granted that the New Moon goats do not atone for that for which the festival goats atone, because the text says: [It hath He given you to bear] the iniquity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. X, 17; supra 9b.');">¹⁵</span> - one iniquity it bears, but it does not bear two iniquities; but let the festival goats atone for that for which the New Moon goats atone? - [No!] The text says: it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' New Moon goat.');">¹⁶</span> [hath He given you to bear the iniquity] - it bears the iniquity, but no other bears the iniquity.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 9b.');">¹⁷</span> Granted that the festival goats do not atone for that for which the Day of Atonement goat atones, because the text says: once in the year [shall he make atonement]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXX, 10; supra 8b.');">¹⁸</span> - this atonement shall be only once a year; but let the Day of Atonement goat atone for that for which the festival goats atone? [No!] The text says: [And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it] once<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid.');">¹⁹</span> - one atonement it atones, but it does not atone two atonements. But once is written in connection with the inner goat [and not the outer]! - The text says: [One goat for a sin offering,]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the outer goat.');">²⁰</span> beside

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