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he said that the verse states: “The first fruits of your grain, your wine, your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him” (Deuteronomy 18:4), implying that its remnants are recognizable for an Israelite, as the notion of a first part indicates that there is another portio
Rav Aḥa bar Rav Avya sat before Rav Ḥisda, and he sat and said in the name of R' Yoḥanan: With regard to grapes that became ritually impure, one should tread on them less than an egg-bulk at a time, and the wine that comes from them is kosher even for libations because it is ritually pure. Apparen
The Talmud challenges this statement: If that is so, then even if he squeezes an egg-bulk of grapes, the juice will still not become impure. Didn’t we learn in a Mishnah: In the case of one who is ritually impure with impurity imparted by a corpse and who squeezed olives or grapes in the exact amoun
Rav Ḥisda said to Rav Aḥa bar Rav Avya: Who will listen to you and to R' Yoḥanan your teacher with regard to this issue? As, where did the impurity that was in the grape juice go? The Talmud notes that apparently Rav Ḥisda holds: Liquids are absorbed within the fruit and are therefore considered to
Rav Aḥa said to him: Do you not hold that liquids are stored inside the grape? Didn’t we learn in the Mishnah: In the case of one who is ritually impure with impurity imparted by a corpse and who squeezed olives or grapes in the exact amount of an egg-bulk, using a flat wooden utensil without touch