Pesachim 20B

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Therefore, the verse states with regard to creeping animals: “And every earthenware vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be impure, and you shall break it” (Leviticus 11:33). And juxtaposed to it is the verse: “From all food in it which may be eaten, upon which water comes,

Rav Ḥisda raised a contradiction between one statement with regard to Passover and another statement with regard to Passover, and he resolved this contradiction himself. The Talmud elaborates: Did R' Yehoshua actually say that both of them may be burned as one, teruma whose purity is uncertain, and

And he raised a contradiction from the Tosefta, as R' Yosei said: The inferred conclusion of burning pure and impure leaven together is not similar to the case from which you cited proof. When R' Meir said that the rabbis, R' Ḥanina the deputy High Priest and R' Akiva, testified, about what did the

R' Yosei continues: If you say that R' Meir is referring to the statement of R' Akiva, with regard to oil that was disqualified by one who immersed himself during that day, that one may kindle it in a lamp that became ritually impure with first-degree impurity through contact with one who became rit

And Rav Ḥisda himself resolved the contradiction: This statement that was taught in the name of R' Yehoshua, that one burns teruma in abeyance together with ritually impure teruma, is the ruling of R' Shimon and in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehoshua, whereas that statement, that one may not