Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 265:13

רב אשי אמר (ויקרא כג, ג) שבתון עשה הוא והוה ליה י"ט עשה ול"ת ואין עשה דוחה את לא תעשה ועשה:

let another perform it; for R. Simeon b. Lakish said: Wherever you find a positive command and a negative command [in opposition], if you can fulfil both of them, it is preferable;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus, if a stranger performs it, the positive command of circumcision is fulfilled without violating the injunction of leprosy, since the stranger has no such intention. ');">¹¹</span>

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