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אפטורא קאי, והכי קאמר: לאו שאין בו מעשה אין לוקין עליו. משום רבי יוסי ברבי חנינא אמרו: אף המקדים תרומה לביכורים.
he was referring not to liability for lashes, but to the exemption from lashes stated in the name of R' Yoḥanan (3a). And this is what he is saying: One is not flogged for transgressing a prohibition that does not involve an action…They said in the name of R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, that also one who separates teruma prior to the separation of the first fruits is not flogged, since he performs no action.
ומאי שנא מימר דלקי, משום דבדיבורו עשה מעשה? מקדים תרומה לביכורים נמי לילקי, משום דבדיבורו עשה מעשה!
The Talmud asks: And what is different about one who effects substitution, that he is flogged despite not having performed an action? Is it because he has performed an action with his speech, by consecrating the animal? If so, one who separates teruma prior to the separation of the first fruits should be flogged as well, because he has performed an action with his speech, by consecrating the produce.
אמר רבי אבין: שאני התם, דלאו שניתק לעשה הוא, דכתיב: ״מכל מעשרותיכם תרימו״.
R' Avin said: It is different there, in the case of one who tithes produce in the wrong order, as it is a prohibition whose violation can be rectified by fulfilling a positive mitzva. As a rule, if the Torah specifies a positive mitzva to be performed after transgressing a prohibition to rectify it, that prohibition does not carry a punishment of lashes. This is the case here, as it is written: “Out of all of your tithes you should set apart all of that which is due to YHWH” (Numbers 18:29), which teaches that one who separated tithes in the incorrect order or who separated teruma before separating the first fruits, must still separate the earlier tithes even after the later tithes, or the first fruits even after the teruma.