Mesorat%20hashas for Shevuot 38:11

פשיטא דלא בעי מדלא מייתרי ליה קראי (ויקרא ה, ב) ונעלם דמיחייב על העלם מקדש מהו דתימא כי לית ליה מקראי אבל מגמרא אית ליה קמ"ל:

And R'Johanan said: [Rabbi meant:] Just as, the awareness of definite sin elsewhere separates [the acts] for sin offerings, so the awareness of doubtful sin [here] separates [the acts] for guilt offerings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, after unwittingly committing a definite sin, he became aware of it, and later again unwittingly committed the same definite sin, the awareness of the definite sin between the two acts makes a division between the acts, and he brings a sin offering for each act; so here, the awareness of the doubtful sin between the acts makes a division between the acts, and he brings a guilt offering for each act. But if the awareness between the acts was only the awareness of the doubtful sin, he does not later bring a sin offering for each act when the knowledge comes to him that he has committed a definite sin.');">¹⁴</span> [Hence, there is incongruity between R'Johanan's statements,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For R. Johanan said, with reference to entering the Temple after walking along two paths, one of which was unclean (with purification between the two walks) , that doubtful knowledge is counted as definite knowledge; yet here he says that doubtful knowledge is not the same as definite knowledge in making a division between acts for sin offerings.');">¹⁵</span>

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