Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 264:16

והא דרבא ורב ספרא

[in his case]; it cannot be inferred from an infant [eight days old], since [there] it is circumcision at the proper time. The feature common to both is that they must be circumcised and they supersede leprosy: so all who must be circumcised supersede leprosy. Raba said: [That] circumcision at the proper time supersedes [leprosy] requires no verse, [for] it is inferred a minori: If it supersedes the Sabbath, which is [more] stringent, how much more so leprosy! Said R. Safra to Raba: How do you know that the Sabbath is [more] stringent, perhaps leprosy is [more] stringent, seeing that it supersedes the sacrificial service, whilst the sacrificial service supersedes the Sabbath? — There it is not because leprosy is more stringent but because the person is unfit. Why so? Let him cut off the bahereth and perform the service? — He [still] lacks tebillah. This is well of unclean eruptions! what can be said of clean eruptions?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., where the leprosy covers the whole skin (v. Lev. XII, 12f). Even then it must not be cut away and supersedes the sacrificial service. ');">¹⁴</span> — Rather R. Ashi said: Where do we rule that a positive command comes and supersedes a negative one? E.g., circumcision in [the place of] leprosy, or fringes and kil'ayim,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. and Deut. XXII, 11f: Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture. The juxtaposition of these two laws is interpreted as showing that the former is suspended in the case of fringes, and the garment may be of linen while the fringes are of wool. ');">¹⁵</span> where at the very moment that the negative injunction is disregarded<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'uprooted'. ');">¹⁶</span> the positive command is fulfilled;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the latter is fulfilled through the disregard of the former. ');">¹⁷</span> but here at the moment that the negative injunction is disregarded the positive command is not fulfilled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The cutting away of the bahereth itself is not a fulfilment of the command to offer a Passover sacrifice, but merely preliminary thereto, so that the fact that leprosy supersedes the sacrificial service is no mark of the stringency of leprosy. ');">¹⁸</span> Now, this [discussion] of Raba and R. Safra

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