Commentary for Yevamot 163:5

אבל טומאת שרץ מאי לא תעלה

What, however, [would be the law in the case of] uncleanness through a reptile?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pentateuchal uncleanness. ');">¹³</span> Assumingly that no neutralization is permitted! Why, then, did he state in the final clause, 'If, however, a piece of levitically clean sin-offering was mixed up with a hundred pieces of clean and unconsecrated meat&nbsp;… neutralization cannot take place'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra note 2. ');">¹⁴</span> Let the distinction rather be drawn in [respect of consecrated meat] itself, thus: This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That neutralization takes place. ');">¹⁵</span>

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