Commentary for Shevuot 38:4

אמר רבי יוחנן כאן עשו ספק ידיעה כידיעה וריש לקיש אמר הא מני רבי ישמעאל היא דאמר לא בעינן ידיעה בתחלה:

Judah] holds that we do not say, an incomplete knowledge is like a complete knowledge.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And he is, therefore, exempt even in the first case, where there was no purification between the two entries.');">⁵</span> 'If he walked along the first [path], and entered [the Temple], and was sprinkled upon [on the third day], and again [on the seventh day], and bathed himself; and then he walked along the second [path], and entered [the Temple], he is liable; and R'Simeon [b.

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