Keritot 8B

חמש אשמות תלויין, כי מייתי חד מי מיפטר? והתניא, זה הכלל: כל שחלוקין בחטאות ⁠– חלוקין באשמות!

to bring 5 provisional guilt offerings, when he brings one offering is he exempt from bringing the rest? But isn’t it taught in a baraita that this is the principle: In any case where one’s transgressions are divided with regard to sin offerings, i.e., where one must bring a separate sin offering for each act when he becomes aware that he has sinned, they are likewise divided with regard to provisional guilt offerings, when there is uncertainty as to whether or not he sinned?

אלא, דכולי עלמא לטבילות מדמי להון, ובחוששין לפשיעה קמיפלגי, רבי יוחנן בן נורי סבר: חיישינן לפשיעה, ורבי עקיבא סבר: לא חיישינן לפשיעה.

Rather, everyone agrees that we compare the sin offerings of a woman after childbirth and a zava to immersions, and therefore by Torah law it is sufficient for her to say: I am bringing it for one of them. And they disagree with regard to whether we are concerned for her negligence. R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri maintains we are concerned for her negligence. In other words, if she says: I am bringing it for one of my obligations, if she gives birth in the following years she might think that she does not need to bring an offering for each birth, and she will neglect to bring an offering. By requiring her to declare: I am bringing the offering for the last definite obligation, the rabbis thereby remind her that all her births require offerings. And R' Akiva maintains we are not concerned for her negligence, and therefore it is sufficient for her to say: I am bringing the offering for one of them.