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If there are nuts from Perekh that are orla, and they fell into other nuts and became intermingled with them, the entire mixture is forbidden, even if the nuts that are orla are few in number. This is because they are deemed significant when they are whole and they are not nullified in a mixture. If
The Talmud asks: But here, by Torah law the forbidden substance is nullified if its ratio in the mixture is not more than one in two, i.e., when the majority of the mixture is permitted, and it was the rabbis who decreed that significant items are not subject to nullification. And nevertheless, R'
The Talmud discusses the previous baraita: And they raised a contradiction between one statement of R' Yosei and another statement of R' Yosei, as we learned in a Mishnah (Orla 1:6): If a sapling that has the status of orla or a grapevine sapling has the status of diverse kinds in a vineyard, e.g.,
R' Yosei says: Even if he intentionally gathered the produce in order that the forbidden produce would become nullified, the forbidden produce is nullified if its ratio in the mixture is not more than one part forbidden produce in 200 parts permitted produce. This seems to contradict what R' Yosei s
The Talmud answers: Wasn’t it already stated with regard to that Mishnah in explanation of R' Yosei’s opinion that Rava says: There is a presumption that a person does not render his entire vineyard forbidden for the sake of one sapling. Therefore, it can be assumed that one does not intentionally