Mesorat%20hashas for Keritot 39:17

להדליק ולכבות וכיבה והדליק בנשימה אחת חייב

But is this not obvious? - I might have thought that since his design was not realized, seeing that he wanted first to kindle and then to extinguish, but in his act [we might regard it as if the extinguishing was done first and then the kindling, he should accordingly be exempt; therefore we are told [that this is not so]; for although [the kindling] did not precede [the extinguishing], neither did it follow.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in fact both acts were simultaneous.');">⁷</span>

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