Related%20passage for Sotah 58:16
מתקיף לה רב פפא ממאי דר' יוסי כרבנן סבירא ליה דילמא כאבא שאול ס"ל דאמר לטמא שנים ולפסול אחד
create a fourth degree of defilement with sacrificial food! We learnt [the rule about] a third degree of defilement with sacrificial food from the Torah and a fourth degree from <i>a fortiori</i> reasoning;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Once the third degree is derived from the Torah, it is possible to employ the a fortiori reasoning in regard to the fourth degree. Were it not so, we should have required the a fortiori reasoning for the third degree only.] ');"><sup>16</sup></span>
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