Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Pesachim 47:16

נמלה לוקה חמש

If so, just as here [it must be destroyed] by burning, so all the forbidden things of the Torah require burning? - Scripture saith, 'the [nothar] remainder': nothar requires burning. but all [other] forbidden things of the Torah do not require burning. Rabina said to R'Ashi: Yet perhaps [it teaches that] he transgresses two negative injunctions on its account?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And is flagellated for each separately. In that case the verse is not superfluous.');"><sup>24</sup></span> Did not Abaye say: if he ate putitha<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A small water reptile (sherez) . a young eel, v. Mak., Sonc. ed. p. 116, n. 8.');"><sup>25</sup></span> he is flagellated four times;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., four flagellations of the prescribed number of lashes.');"><sup>26</sup></span> [for] an ant, he is flagellate five times;

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

[The author continues for several columns to discuss the pros and cons of how to interpret that particular discussion in the Talmud. The conclusion he comes to is that Maimonides can certainly claim to base his ruling not only on the Sifri but also on Rava in the section of the Talmud quoted. Ed].
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