When Eating Forbidden Fat Twice Brings Two Sin-Offerings

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 469:25

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(Above, verse 2) "And he does one of them" and "and he does of these" (Leviticus 4:2) come to make one liable for each and every act. So that if he ate forbidden fat and again forbidden fat, the same prohibition in two separate lapses of awareness, he is liable for two sin-offerings; and two distinct prohibitions in a single lapse, he is liable for two. Rami bar Hama said to Rav Hisda: It is well that for the same prohibition in two separate lapses he is liable for two, since the separate lapses divide the act into two. But for two distinct prohibitions in a single lapse, why is he liable for two? Surely we require separate lapses, and here there are none. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said in the name of ben Tumnai: With what case are we dealing here? With one who ate from two separate dishes, and according to the view of Rabbi Yehoshua, who said that separate dishes divide the act into two.

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