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because a liquid whose smell is vinegar and its flavor is wine is considered vinegar, and the wine, when it spilled into the jug of vinegar, took on the smell of vinegar from the moment it reached the airspace of the jug, and it has therefore become a type of food mixed with food of its own type. A
Rava says that the mixture is forbidden only in a case where the wine imparts flavor to the vinegar, because a liquid whose smell is vinegar and its flavor is wine is considered wine, and it has therefore become a type of food mixed with food not of its own type. And any type of forbidden food mixed
§ With regard to this bunghole [bat tiha], the hole in a jug through which one can smell the wine, if a non-Jew smells a Jew’s wine through it, the wine is permitted, but for a Jew to smell a non-Jew’s wine through it, Abaye says that it is prohibited, whereas Rava says that it is permitted. Abay
Rava says: From where do I say that a smell is nothing? It is as we learned in a Mishnah (Terumot 10:4): With regard to an oven that one lit with cumin stalks of teruma and baked bread in it, the bread is permitted because it has not absorbed the flavor of the cumin stalks but only the smell of the
Rav Mari said: This dispute between Abaye and Rava is parallel to a dispute between tanna’im, as it is taught in a Mishnah (Terumot 10:3): With regard to one who detached a hot loaf of bread from the oven and placed it on the opening of a jug of wine of teruma, the portion of the produce designat