Study Avodah Zarah folio 69A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
If a mouse fell into vinegar, what is the halakha? Does it enhance its flavor? Rav Hillel said to Rav Ashi: There was such an incident in the study hall of Rav Kahana, and Rav Kahana deemed the vinegar forbidden. This indicates that it enhances the flavor. Rav Ashi said to him: This is not a proof
The Talmud relates: Ravina thought that the quantity of vinegar necessary for nullifying the flavor of the mouse should be calculated at 101 times the volume of the mouse. He said: It should not be rendered worse, i.e., more stringent, than teruma, which is nullified by 101 times its volume in a
Rav Aḥai calculated the amount of vinegar necessary to nullify the flavor of the mouse at 50 times its volume. Although forbidden food in a mixture usually requires the presence of 60 times its volume of permitted food to be nullified, vinegar has a sharp enough flavor that it nullifies the mouse wi
The Talmud concludes: And the halakha is that this and that, both vinegar and beer, nullify the mouse with 60 times its volume, and so is the ruling for all prohibitions in the Torah.
Mishnah: With regard to a non-Jew who was transporting jugs of wine from one place to another place together with a Jew, if the wine was under the presumption of being supervised, it is permitted. But if the Jew notified him that he was going far away, the wine is forbidden if the Jew left for a