Makkot 21B

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Apropos the case where one receives several sets of lashes for performing a single action, the Mishnah continues: There is one who plows a single furrow and is liable to receive lashes for violating 8 prohibitions. How so? For plowing with an ox and a donkey, in violation of the prohibition: “You

Ḥananya ben Ḥakhinai says: If he was wearing a garment consisting of diverse kinds of wool and linen while plowing he is also flogged for violating that prohibition. The rabbis said to him: That is not a prohibition in the same category as the others, as it is not connected to the act of plowing.

Talmud: Rav Beivai says that R' Yosei says that when the Mishnah teaches with regard to wearing a garment of diverse kinds of wool and linen: And he removes it and dons it after each forewarning, does it mean that one is liable for each forewarning only if he actually removes and dons it, or perhap

§ The Mishnah teaches: There is one who plows a single furrow and is liable to receive lashes for violating 8 prohibitions. R' Yannai says that when the rabbis sat in a group, their opinions were counted and they concluded: One who covers seeds of diverse kinds with dirt is flogged for sowing diver

R' Yannai said to him: You are correct; but if I had not lifted the earthenware shard for you, would you have found the gem beneath it? It was only after I told you the halakha that you succeeded in finding a source in the Mishnah. Later, Reish Lakish said to R' Yoḥanan: If it was not for the fact