Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 184:8

אלא מזיד קתני בהדייהו ה"נ אונן קתני בהדייהו

-He can answer you: If so, the second clause which teaches, IF HE UNWITTINGLY ERRED OR WAS ACCIDENTALLY PREVENTED AND DID NOT KEEP THE FIRST, HE MUST KEEP THE SECOND: [will you argue that] since he [the Tanna] states, AND DID NOT KEEP, it follows that had he desired he could have kept it? But surely he had unwittingly erred or been accidentally prevented! Hence [you must answer that] he teaches of deliberate neglect together with these;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., though it is not specifically stated, yet the words 'AND DID NOT KEEP can only apply to such, and he is therefore to be understood as included in the MISHNAH:');">¹⁵</span> so here too [in the first clause] he teaches about an onen together with these.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the Mishnah is to be read in the first clause as including onen (v. Hananel) . He could have kept the First Passover had he desired, v. supra 90b, and it is to this that the words 'AND DID NOT KEEP' refer.');">¹⁶</span>

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