[א] "נפש" – לרבות כהן משיח למעילה. "כִּי תִמְעֹל מַעַל" – אין מעילה אלא שינוי. וכן הוא אומר 'וימעלו בה' אלהי אבותם ויזנו אחרי הבעלים' (דה"א ה, כה). וכן הוא אומר בסוטה (במדבר ה, יב) "איש..כי תשטה אשתו ומעלה בו מעל".
1) (Vayikra 5:15) ("A soul, if it profanes, and sins unwittingly of the sanctified things of the L–rd, then he shall bring his guilt-offering to the L–rd"): "a soul": to include the anointed (high-) priest as subject to profanation (me'ilah). (For I would think: It is written (Shemoth 30:33): "If a man compounds its (the anointing oil's) like and places of it upon a stranger," but not upon the anointed priest, who is no stranger to it, (it is, therefore, written, to negate this, "a soul," i.e., any soul). "if it profanes (timol ma'al). "Meilah" is a change (from the sacred to the profane), viz. (Chronicles 5:25): "And they profaned (vayimalu) the G d of their fathers, and went astray after the ba'alim," and (Bamidbar 5:12): "A man, if his wife goes astray and profanes him."
[א] "נפש" – לרבות כהן משיח למעילה. "כִּי תִמְעֹל מַעַל" – אין מעילה אלא שינוי. וכן הוא אומר 'וימעלו בה' אלהי אבותם ויזנו אחרי הבעלים' (דה"א ה, כה). וכן הוא אומר בסוטה (במדבר ה, יב) "איש..כי תשטה אשתו ומעלה בו מעל".
1) (Vayikra 5:15) ("A soul, if it profanes, and sins unwittingly of the sanctified things of the L–rd, then he shall bring his guilt-offering to the L–rd"): "a soul": to include the anointed (high-) priest as subject to profanation (me'ilah). (For I would think: It is written (Shemoth 30:33): "If a man compounds its (the anointing oil's) like and places of it upon a stranger," but not upon the anointed priest, who is no stranger to it, (it is, therefore, written, to negate this, "a soul," i.e., any soul). "if it profanes (timol ma'al). "Meilah" is a change (from the sacred to the profane), viz. (Chronicles 5:25): "And they profaned (vayimalu) the G d of their fathers, and went astray after the ba'alim," and (Bamidbar 5:12): "A man, if his wife goes astray and profanes him."