Commentary for Shabbat 141:6

והוינן בה ממין אחד חייב צריכא למימר ואמר ריש לקיש משום בר תוטני הכא במאי עסקינן כגון שאכלו בשני תמחויין ורבי יהושע היא דאמר תמחויין מחלקין מהו דתימא אמר רבי יהושע בין לקולא בין לחומרא קא משמע לן דלקולא לא אמר לחומרא קאמר

therefore they do not combine.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence there is no liability. ');">¹⁶</span> Now, wherever [acts] are distinct in respect of sin-offerings, do they not combine? Surely we learnt: If one eats heleb and [then again] heleb in one state of unawareness, he is culpable for only one [sin-offering]. If one eats heleb, blood, nothar, and piggul<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. ');">¹⁷</span> in one state of unawareness, he is culpable for each separately: in this many kinds [of forbidden food] are more stringent then one kind. — But in the following one kind is more stringent than many kinds: viz., if one eats half the size of an olive and then eats half the size of an olive of the same kind of [commodity],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The overall time being less than is required for the eating of half an average meal. It is then regarded as one act of eating. ');">¹⁸</span>

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