Study Yoma folio 79A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The large date-bulk that they said is the measure that determines liability for eating on Yom Kippur, does this refer to the volume of a large date with its pit or without its pit? Rav Ashi asked a similar question: The Mishnah that states that a bone that is a barley-grain-bulk imparts ritual impur
Rava said that Rav Yehuda said: The volume of a large date that they said is larger than an egg-bulk. The rabbis have an accepted tradition that with this amount of food, the mind of the one who eats is settled, and he is not afflicted. Less than this amount, the mind is not settled. The Talmud ra
On the other hand, the Talmud reports: And when they gave R' Tzadok food that was less than an egg-bulk to eat, he held it in a cloth and did not wash his hands. And he ate it outside of the sukka and did not recite Grace after Meals afterward.