Commentary for Yevamot 12:7

ואמר רבא תנא מושבות קא קשיא ליה מושבות מה ת"ל

and, if one is to follow R. Nathan, it was to intimate that even a single transgression involves one in the prescribed penalties;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to divide', i.e., one of the thirty-nine kinds of labour that are forbidden on the Sabbath was singly specified in order to indicate that to incur the prescribed penalties it is not necessary to commit all the thirty-nine transgressions (as the one general, all-embracing prohibition of about might have seemed to imply). The mention of one prohibition (kindling of fire) separately breaks up, so to speak, (divides), all the others into single units, indicating that, as in its own case, so in that of all the others first mentioned together with it, every single transgression involves the penalty of stoning, kareth, or a sin-offering. ');">¹³</span> for it was taught: 'The prohibition of kindling a fire [on the Sabbath] was mentioned separately<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'went out'. ');">¹⁴</span>

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