Menachot 15B

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who planted seeds in the vineyard of an another when the grapes on the vines were budding, and the incident came before the rabbis and they deemed the seeds prohibited due to the prohibition against planting diverse kinds in a vineyard, but they deemed the vines permitted. The Talmud continues: But

The Talmud rejects the comparison: How can these cases be compared? There, in the baraita, only hemp and arum are prohibited by Torah law to be sown in a vineyard, as we learned in a Mishnah (Kilayim 2:5): If one’s field was sown with hemp and arum, he should not sow above them, as they produce a y

And there are those who teach the dilemma of R' Elazar with regard to the lambs brought with the two loaves, and not with regard to a thanks offering. R' Elazar raised a dilemma before Rav: In a case where one slaughters the lambs with the intent to consume an olive-bulk from them and from their lo

R' Elazar elaborated: I do not raise the dilemma with regard to rendering the lambs piggul for the following reason: Now that in a case where his intent was to consume an entire olive-bulk from the loaves alone, the lambs are not rendered piggul, as the Mishnah teaches that piggul intent with regar

Rav said to R' Elazar: Even in this case, the loaves are rendered piggul and the lambs are not rendered piggul. The Talmud asks: But why should the loaves be rendered piggul? Let us say the following a fortiori inference: And if that which renders an item piggul, i.e., the lambs, since it is maint