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that R' Ḥanina’s statement was with regard to a chest, as we learned in a Mishnah (Kelim 18:1): A wooden chest that is large enough to contain 40 se’a is not susceptible to contracting ritual impurity, since it is no longer considered a vessel. In determining its capacity, Beit Shammai say that it i
R' Yosei says: They concede that the volume of the legs and the volume of the rims are measured, but the space enclosed between the rims and the legs is not measured. R' Shimon Shezuri says: If the legs were one handbreadth high then the space between the legs is not measured, since the area has an
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said that R' Ḥanina’s statement was with regard to wine, as we learned in a Mishnah (Teharot 3:2): R' Meir says: Oil, an example of a liquid, that contracted impurity, is always considered to have first-degree ritual impurity, even if it came into contact with an item that wa
§ The Talmud relates another statement of R' Shimon Shezuri: It is taught in a baraita that R' Shimon Shezuri said: Once, my untithed produce became mixed together with a greater quantity of non-sacred, i.e., tithed, produce, and I came and asked R' Tarfon how I should separate tithes from the unti
The Talmud explains: R' Tarfon holds that by Torah law the minority of untithed produce is nullified in the majority of tithed produce and is therefore exempt from tithes; it is by rabbinic law that it is not nullified and one is obligated to separate tithes from it. And additionally, he holds that