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as an impure vessel loses its status as a vessel and consequently its impurity when it can no longer be used, if they have holes the size of pomegranates.
A land of olive oil: R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, said that the verse should be expounded as follows: A land, all of whose measures are the size of olives. The Talmud poses a question: Can it enter your mind that it is a land all of whose measures are the size of olives? Aren’t there those measures
Honey, i.e., dates from which date honey is extracted, also alludes to a measurement. With regard to Yom Kippur, one is only liable if he eats the equivalent of a large date on Yom Kippur. The Talmud asks: And what will the other amora, who interpreted the verse as referring to the halakhot of pre
With regard to the halakhot of precedence in blessings, the Talmud relates: Rav Ḥisda and Rav Hamnuna were sitting at a meal. They brought dates and pomegranates before them. Rav Hamnuna took and recited a blessing over the dates first. Rav Ḥisda said to him: Does the Master not hold that halakha w
Rav Hamnuna said to him: This, the date, is mentioned second to the word land, in the verse: “A land of olive oil and honey,” just after the olive, and this, the pomegranate, is fifth to the word land. Rav Ḥisda said to him admiringly: Who will give us iron legs that we may serve you and constan