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אמר ליה: אדא ברי, בתרי קטלי קטלת ליה?
Rava said to him: Adda my son, will you kill him with two death penalties? R' Yosei concedes that the prohibition of having sex with a married woman takes effect in addition to the prohibition of having sex with his mother-in-law. If he had violated the transgression unwittingly, he would have been liable to bring two sin-offerings. But if he violated the transgression intentionally, it is impossible to execute him by strangulation after executing him by burning.
מתני׳ מי שלקה ושנה, בית דין מכניסין אותו לכיפה, ומאכילין אותו שעורין עד שכריסו מתבקעת.
Mishnah: One who was flogged for violating a prohibition and then repeated the violation and was flogged again assumes the status of a forewarned transgressor. The court places him into the vaulted chamber [lakippa] and feeds him barley bread until his belly ruptures due to the low-quality food, and he dies.
גמ׳ משום דלקה ושנה, בית דין כונסין אותו לכיפה? אמר רבי ירמיה אמר רבי שמעון בן לקיש: הכא במלקיות של כריתות עסקינן, דגברא בר קטלא הוא, וקרובי הוא דלא מיקרב קטליה. וכיון דקא מוותר לה לנפשיה, מקרבינן ליה לקטליה עילויה.
Talmud: Due to the fact that he was flogged and repeated the violation does the court place him into the vaulted chamber for the duration of his life and advance his death? R' Yirmeya says that R' Shimon ben Lakish says: Here, we are dealing with lashes administered for violations of prohibitions punishable by excision from the World-to-Come [karet]. As when one violates such a prohibition, the man is essentially liable to be punished with death at the hand of Heaven, but his death is not advanced by the court, as it is administered by the heavenly court. And in this case, since he surrenders his life through his repeated transgressions, we advance his execution upon him by placing him in the vaulted chamber.