Commentary for Pesachim 66:2

יתיב רב אחא בר רב עויא קמיה דרב חסדא ויתיב ואמר משמיה דר' יוחנן ענבים שנטמאו דורכן פחות פחות מכביצה ויינן כשר לנסכין אלמא קסבר משקין מיפקד פקידי לאימת קא מיטמאי לכי סחיט להו לכי סחיט להו ליתיה לשיעוריה

This proves that he holds that the juice is indeed stored up;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is not joined, as it were, to the outer skin and part of it, but like a liquid that is kept in a vessel. For if it were held to be absorbed and part the skin, it would become unclean simultaneously with the skin.');">⁵</span> [consequently] when is it [the juice] defiled? When he expresses it; [but] when he expresses it, its standard quantity [for defiling] is absent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As explained on p. 152, n. 14.');">⁶</span> If so, [he can tread] as much as an egg too, for we learned: If a man unclean through a corpse squeezes out olives or grapes exactly as much as an egg in quantity, they are clean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This person defiles food, and the food in turn, if not less than an egg in quantity, defiles liquids. Here the man does not touch the expressed juice. Now after the first drop issues the residue is less than the necessary minimum and therefore it does not defile the liquid that follows');">⁷</span>

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