Zevachim 30B

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Abaye said to Rav Dimi: But doesn’t Rabba bar bar Ḥana say that R' Yoḥanan says: When you consider their opinions, R' Meir and R' Yosei do not disagree with one another, i.e., neither holds that one attends only to the first statement?

Rav Dimi objected: And is it so that they do not disagree? But don’t they disagree explicitly in the Mishnah cited earlier? Abaye said to him: They disagree where they disagree, i.e., that specific case, but they do not disagree where they do not disagree, i.e., the underlying principle. According

This is as Rav Yitzḥak bar Yosef says that R' Yoḥanan says: All, i.e., R' Meir and R' Yosei, concede that in a case where one says: Let this sanctity of a burnt offering take effect and afterward let that sanctity of a peace offering take effect, everyone agrees that the sanctity of a peace offerin

They disagree with regard to a case where one says: This animal is hereby a substitute for a burnt offering, a substitute for a peace offering. R' Meir holds: Since if he wanted both sanctities to take effect, he should have said: A substitute for a burnt offering and a peace offering, but he said

And R' Yosei holds that if he had said: A substitute for a burnt offering and a peace offering, I would say that he means that half the animal should be a substitute for a burnt offering and half a substitute for a peace offering. He therefore says: A substitute for a burnt offering, a substitute fo