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According to Abaye, why do I also need this Mishnah here? If you will suggest that this Mishnah is necessary, as one can infer from it that if one intended to partake of half an olive-bulk the next day and then intended to partake of another half an olive-bulk the next day, both from an item whose t
If you suggest that the Mishnah is necessary for a case where one intended to consume and to burn, i.e., that the Mishnah teaches us the matter itself, that intent to consume does not join together with intent to burn, this too cannot be. The reason is that from the inference of the first clause o
The Talmud explains how the halakha that intent to consume and burn do not combine can be inferred from the Mishnah: Now consider, if when one intended to partake of an item whose typical manner is such that one partakes of it and to partake of an item whose typical manner is such that one does not
The Talmud responds: Yes; although the Mishnah teaches the halakha of a case where one intended to consume an item typically consumed and to consume an item typically not consumed, it was necessary for the Mishnah to teach the halakha of a case where one intended to eat and to burn. As it might en
The Talmud continues: But here, where his intent was to consume half an olive-bulk and to burn half an olive-bulk, where with regard to this half he intends in accordance with its typical manner, and with regard to this half he intends in accordance with its typical manner, one might say that they