Pesachim 15B

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The Tosefta continues: Piggul is an offering disqualified by the improper intention during the performance of the 4 sacrificial rites to sacrifice it or eat it after its appropriate time; and notar is the flesh of a sacrifice that is left over beyond its allotted time. The rabbis decreed ritual impu

The Talmud returns to the issue under discussion: And if it enters your mind that R' Meir is saying that he derives his opinion from the statement of R' Yehoshua, why does R' Yosei respond to him from the statement of R' Ḥanina the deputy High Priest? Rav Naḥman said to him: R' Yosei did not have R'

And R' Yosei said to R' Meir in response: And even according to R' Yehoshua, that is not the inference from which the halakha of burning pure and impure leavened teruma together can be learned, as R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua concede that one should burn this meat by itself and that meat by itself, a

The Talmud raises a difficulty with regard to the above statement: But why does R' Yosei say: That is not the inference from which it can be learned? On the contrary, it is a perfectly legitimate inference. In both cases the dispute is the same: Is one permitted to actively render an object impure

The Talmud rejects this contention: The case there, of the broken jug in the upper press, where according to R' Yehoshua it is permitted to actively render the teruma impure, is different, as in that case there is the potential loss of non-sacred produce. If one does not render the teruma in the up