Pesachim 33A

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that one who intentionally misuses consecrated items is liable to receive death at the hand of Heaven? It is R' Yehuda HaNasi. As it was taught in a baraita: With regard to one who intentionally misuses consecrated items, R' Yehuda HaNasi says that he is liable to receive death at the hand of Heaven

The Talmud asks: What is the reason for the opinion of R' Yehuda HaNasi? From where does he derive his opinion? R' Abbahu said: He derives it by means of a verbal analogy between the word sin stated with regard to misuse of consecrated items and the word sin stated with regard to teruma. With regar

From this verbal analogy, the comparison between teruma and misuse of consecrated property can be extended to other issues as well: Just as one is punished only for eating at least an olive-bulk of teruma, so too, one is punished for misusing consecrated items only if there is at least an olive-bul

Rav Pappa strongly objects to Rav Sheshet and Rabba’s rejection of the explanation of the baraita: From where do you know that R' Yehuda HaNasi holds in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis that one is only punished after eating an olive-bulk of teruma? Perhaps he holds in accordance with the o

With regard to the issue mentioned previously, the Talmud asks: But isn’t Rav Pappa the one who said that Abba Shaul said that it requires two conditions, that the object be worth a peruta and that it be an olive-bulk in volume? Rather, learn from this that Rav Pappa retracted his statement with reg