Commentary for Shevuot 37:8

בכולן

and entered [the Temple],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having forgotten his possible uncleanness.');">²⁰</span> he is liable.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because either the first or the second time he entered the Temple while unclean.');">²¹</span> R'Simeon [b. Yohai] exempts him;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because, before he entered the Temple either the first or second time, he had not the knowledge of definite uncleanness, for, before entering the Temple the first time, he certainly had not the knowledge of definite uncleanness (for the first path may have been clean) , and even after walking along the second path he had not now the knowledge of definite uncleanness, since he had already purified himself from the first possible uncleanness (and the second path may be clean) ; and in order to bring a sacrifice we require knowledge at the beginning of definite uncleanness. In the previous instance, where he had not purified himself between the two entries, he has the knowledge of definite uncleanness before entering the Temple the second time.');">²²</span> and R'Simeon B'Judah exempts him in all these cases in the name of R'Simeon [b. Yohai].' In all of them,'

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