Commentary for Shabbat 147:7

חזקיה אמר הבורר תורמוסים מתוך פסולת שלהן חייב לימא קסבר חזקיה אוכל מתוך פסולת אסור שאני תורמוסים

'He is culpable'? — There is no difficulty: the one treats of a reed-basket and a plate;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the selecting is done by these, he is not culpable. ');">¹⁷</span> the other refers to a sieve and a basket-sieve. When R. Dimi came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 12, n. 9. ');">¹⁸</span> he related: It was R. Bibi's Sabbath,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was his turn that Sabbath to wait on the scholars. ');">¹⁹</span> and R. Ammi and R. Assi chanced to be there. He cast a basket of fruit before them,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] denotes to put down with some violence. He did this instead of first separating the leaves from the fruit, as they would fall away automatically through the force of his setting it down. ');">²⁰</span> and I do not know whether it was because he held that it is forbidden to pick out the eatable from the noneatable, or whether he wished to be generous.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence placed a large quantity before them. ');">²¹</span> Hezekiah said: One who picks lupines [after boiling] out of their husks<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'refuse'. ');">²²</span> is culpable. Shall we say that Hezekiah holds that it is forbidden to select the eatable from the non-eatable? [No.] Lupines are different,

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