Commentary for Niddah 120:26

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and on an olive leaf while they were making a fire in an oven, and when the case was submitted to the Sages they declared them to be unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now an olive leaf is not susceptible to uncleanness and yet the Sages (the majority) ruled that a stain on it causes uncleanness. How then could it be said that the halachah agrees with R. Nehemiah who was only an individual? ');">²⁷</span>

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