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those bundles must be burned. If the bundles were intermingled with others, and those others were intermingled with others, they all must be burned. This is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: They can be nullified when the total is 201 items, i.e., one prohibited item intermingled with
The Mishnah continues: R' Meir holds that they all must be burned, as R' Meir would say: Any item whose manner is to be counted renders its mixture prohibited, as it is considered significant and cannot be nullified. And the Rabbis say: Only 6 items are sufficiently significant to render their mixt
The Mishnah continues: Different prohibitions apply to these items. That which is fit to be forbidden due to the prohibition against eating the fruit of a tree during the first 3 years after its planting [orla], i.e., nuts, pomegranates, and sealed jugs of wine, prohibit their mixture as orla. That
And it was stated that there is a dispute between amora’im with regard to the wording of R' Meir’s opinion in this Mishnah. R' Yoḥanan says that we learned: Only an item whose manner is exclusively to be counted is significant and cannot be nullified, and it therefore renders its mixture prohibited
The Talmud reiterates its question: This works out well according to the opinion of Reish Lakish, but according to the opinion of R' Yoḥanan, what can be said? According to his opinion, since animals are not sold exclusively by unit, they are not sufficiently significant. Therefore, a prohibited an