Commentary for Nedarim 115:2

and hadash,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'new'. The new crops which are forbidden until the offering of the 'Omer, v. Lev. XXIII, 10-14. ');">⁴</span> the Sages declared no limit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If these are mixed up with permitted food, the Sages do not rule that if the latter exceeds the former by a certain ratio the whole is permitted, as in the next clause. The reason is, since it is possible to cancel the prohibition in itself, there is no need to have recourse to nullification through excess. ');">⁵</span> But for everything which cannot become permitted. e.g., <i>terumah</i>, the <i>terumah</i> of the tithe,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the tithe which the Levite received from the Israelite, he had to give one tenth to the priest. ');">⁶</span>

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