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The Talmud objects: Let us learn from the case of the nazirite’s ram that the flavor of sacrificial food can be nullified. The Talmud explains: God revealed in the Torah with regard to the sin offering: “Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy” (Leviticus 6:20). This teaches that the halakhic s
The Talmud asks: And what did you see to indicate that we learn the principle of nullification concerning sacrificial food from that verse of the sin offering? Derive it instead from this verse concerning the foreleg of the nazirite’s ram. The Talmud answers: This case of the nazirite’s ram is a nov
The Talmud objects: If so, if the case of the nazirite’s ram is not a viable precedent for general halakhic principles, then one should also not learn from that case that when forbidden food is mixed with permitted food of a different type, it is nullified in either 100 or 60 times its own volume.
Ravina said an alternative explanation of the term: This is, that appears in the baraita with regard to the nazirite’s ram. This limitation is necessary only for the place where the foreleg is cut from the body of the ram, as it was said that in a case where permitted and forbidden foods were attach
§ The Talmud returns to discussing the statement of R' Shmuel bar Rav Yitzḥak (98a) that forbidden food is nullified in a mixture only if there is 100 times its volume of permitted food. Rav Dimi sat and said this halakha.