Mesorat%20hashas for Shevuot 14:6

יש לי בענין זה להביא שלש טומאות טומאת ע"ז וטומאת גילוי עריות וטומאת שפיכות דמים

We have, then, limitation after limitation; and limitation after limitatio serves to amplify.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A double limitation is equivalent to an amplification, just as a double negative is equivalent to a positive. This is one of the thirty-two hermeneutical principles by which R. Eliezer, son of R. Jose the Galilean, expounds Holy Writ. In the present instance the double limitation serves to include that he who eats the carcass of a clean bird and enters the Temple or eats holy food must bring a sliding scale sacrifice.');">⁸</span> WHERE THERE IS KNOWLEDGE AT THE BEGINNING BUT NOT AT THE END, THE GOAT THE BLOOD OF WHICH IS SPRINKLED WITHIN THE VEIL etc. Our Rabbis taught: And he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the Children of Israel.

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