Commentary for Yoma 99:13

והתניא פר של יוה"כ ושעיר של יום הכפורים שאבדו והפריש אחרים תחתיהן כולם ימותו דברי רבי יהודה רבי (אליעזר) ורבי שמעון אומרים ירעו עד שיסתאבו וימכרו ויפלו דמיהן לנדבה שאין חטאת צבור מתה

Would you infer from this that there must be a view that they are sacrifices of an individual?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The assumption being that only thus could they fail to suspend either of the laws.');">¹⁸</span> Rather [what you must therefore say is] he answered the first Tanna whom he heard saying that a community-sacrifice suspends the laws both of the Sabbath and those touching levitical impurity, whilst the sacrifice of an individual suspends neither the laws of the Sabbath nor those affecting levitical uncleanness, whereupon R'Meir said: 'Is [the law concerning] the offering of an individual a general rule, is there not the bullock of the Day of Atonement?

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