Yoma 81A

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who chews on barley of teruma that has not been ground or baked pays the principal and not an extra fifth. The reason is that it states “eats” (Leviticus 22:14), which excludes one who harms himself. Consuming raw barley is considered self-harm, not eating.

Rav Sheizvi said that R' Yoḥanan said: In the case of a non-priest who swallowed plums of teruma whole and vomited them out, whereupon another person ate them, the first one pays the principal plus a fifth. When the first one benefited from the plums, he acquired them and must therefore pay for t

§ It was taught in the Mishnah that food and drink do not combine. The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna who taught this? Rav Ḥisda said: This halakha is taught as a dispute, and the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehoshua. As we learned in a Mishnah: R' Yehoshua stated a general prin

However, if one item is identical to another in its ritual impurity but not its measure, e.g., half a lentil-bulk of a creeping animal and half an olive-bulk of an animal carcass, which both impart impurity until nightfall; or if its measure is identical but not its type of ritual impurity, e.g.,

Rav Naḥman said: Even if you say that the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis, until now we have heard the Rabbis say there that items with different measures combine only with respect to ritual impurity. Since the phenomenon of ritual impurity is one concept, different types co