Commentary for Bava Batra 160:8

אלא לרבא קשיא

[It has been taught]: Honey in one's beehive is neither food nor drink.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. p. 324. n. 2. ');">¹³</span> [If, however, the owner] intended [to use] it as food, it is subject to [the laws of the Levitical] defilement of food; [if] as drink, it is subject to [the laws of Levitical] defilement of drink. This is quite correct according to Abaye.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 2. ');">¹⁴</span>

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