Commentary for Menachot 135:1

מתוך שלא היתרתה לו אלא על ידי קיטוף זכור הוא

<br> for since you have only permitted a man to pluck [the corn with the hand], he would remember. Said Abaye to him: This is satisfactory with regard to reaping, but what about the grinding and the sifting? - This is really no difficulty, for the grinding could be done in a hand-mill, and the sifting on the back of the sieve. But what is to be said of irrigated fields where reaping is permitted, for we have learnt: One may reap [before the 'Omer the corn] in irrigated fields in the plain, but one may not stack it? - Abaye therefore answered thus, From the new produce a man is accustomed to abstain, but from leaven he is not accustomed to abstain. Said Raba, Is there only a contradiction between the views of R. Judah and not between the views of the Rabbis? - Raba therefore answered, There is no contradiction between the views of R. Judah. as we have already answered; and there is also no contradiction between the views of the Rabbis, for the sole purpose of his searching [for leaven] is in order to burn it, would he then eat of it? R. Ashi said, There is no contradiction between the views of R. Judah, because our Mishnah speaks of MEAL AND PARCHED CORN. But this statement of R. Ashi is beside the mark; for this is very well when the corn has been parched, but what can be said for the time before the corn has been parched? Should you say that here too the corn will only be plucked, as Rabbah suggested above, then it will be asked, What is to be said in the case of an irrigated field where reaping is permitted? We must therefore say that R. Ashi's statement is beside the mark.

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