2,431. Violating Five Prohibitions in a Single Bite

Maachalos Assuros 14:17

Pursuant to the previous halacha, if there’s untithed produce and a neveila, we feed a famished person the neveila first because eating untithed produce incurs a Divine death sentence. If we have a neveila and produce that grew on its own in the Sabbatical year, we feed him the produce first because it’s prohibited by rabbinic law rather than Biblically. If we have untithed produce and Sabbatical-year produce, we feed him the Sabbatical-year produce; if we have untithed produce and trumah, and it’s not possible to tithe the produce, then we feed it to him untithed. We give him the untithed produce rather than the trumah because the untithed produce isn’t sanctified. The same rules apply in all comparable scenarios.

Maachalos Assuros 14:18

We’ve already discussed how one prohibition doesn’t take effect on top of another unless (a) they both take effect simultaneously, (b) the second prohibition includes things beyond the thing initially prohibited or (c) the second prohibition combines other things with the first prohibition. Therefore, a person can eat one olive-sized portion of something prohibited and be liable to five sets of lashes so long as he was warned about all five prohibitions. For example, if a ritually-unclean person ate an olive-sized piece of a forbidden fat from a consecrated animal that was left over past its time on Yom Kippur, he would be liable to lashes for forbidden fat, nosar, eating on Yom Kippur, eating sanctified food in a state of ritual impurity and deriving benefit from consecrated food, which is misappropriation.