Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 64:13

ואמר ליה הכי קאמר לא אם אמרת בשאר מצות שכן לא חייב בהן מיתה בפחות מכזית תאמר במעילה שחייב בה מיתה בפחות מכזית ואמר ליה תנוח דעתך שהנחת את דעתי וא"ל מאי ניחותא דרבה ורב ששת שדו ביה נרגא מאן שמעת ליה דאמר

Therefore 'unwittingly' is stated, excluding deliberate [transgression]. Now R'Nahman B'Isaac said to R'Hiyya B'Abin: This Tanna, at first, regards kareth as severer, while subsequently he regards death [at the hands of Heaven] as more severe?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This follows from a comparison of the two halves of the argument.');">¹⁹</span> And he answered him, This is what he means: No; if you say [thus] in the case of other precepts, that is because he is not liable to death on their account for less then an olive; will you say [the same] of trespass, where death is incurred for less than an olive. Whereon he said to him, Thy mind be at rest, because thou hast set my mind at rest. Said he to him, What satisfaction [is there in this answer], seeing that Rabbah and R'Shesheth have swung an axe at it:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., proved it to be incorrect.');">²⁰</span> Whom do you know to maintain?

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