Commentary for Pesachim 63:13

אמר לו לא אם אמרת בתרומה טמאה בשאר ימות השנה שאע"פ שאין לו בה היתר אכילה יש לו בה היתר הסקה תאמר בזו שאין לו בה לא היתר אכילה ולא היתר הסקה אמר לו אף בזו יש לו בה היתר הסקה שאם רצה הכהן מריצה לפני כלבו או מסיקה תחת תבשילו

Said R'Eliezer B'Jacob to R'Eleazar Hisma: Yet what benefit has he [the priest] therein? R'Eleazar Hisma replied to R'Eliezer B'Jacob: And what benefit has he [therein] that he who eats unclean terumah during the rest of the year, must pay? Not so, answered he: if you speak of unclean terumah during the rest of the year, [that is] because though he [the priest] does not enjoy the right to eat it, yet he enjoys right to use it as fuel; will you say [the same] of this, in which he does not enjoy the right of eating or the right to use it as fuel? Said he to him, In this too he has the right to use it as fuel, for if the priest wishe can place it before his dog or burn it under his pot.

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