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it lacks the requisite measure? The smallest quantity of food that is considered eating is the size of an olive-bulk, and an olive with its pit removed is smaller than that.
He said to him: Do you hold that we require a large olive as the measure of food necessary in order to recite a blessing after eating? We require a medium-sized olive and that olive was that size, as the olive that they brought before R' Yoḥanan was a large olive. Even though they removed its pit, t
The Talmud cites a proof that the halakhic measure of an olive is not based on a large olive as we learned in a Mishnah: The olive of which the rabbis spoke with regard to the halakhic measures is neither small nor large, but medium, and that olive is called aguri. And R' Abbahu said: The name of th
With regard to the appropriate blessing over boiled vegetables: Let us say that this dispute is parallel to a dispute between the tanna’im, as the Talmud relates: Two students were sitting before bar Kappara when cooked cabbage, cooked Damascene plums and pullets were set before him. Bar Kappara g
The Talmud concludes that it was taught: And both of them did not live out his year. Due to bar Kappara’s anger they were punished, and both died within the year.