Commentary for Shabbat 181:4

אמר רבא אמר רב נחמן הוציא כגרוגרת לאכילה ונמלך עליה לזריעה אי נמי לזריעה ונמלך עליה לאכילה חייב פשיטא זיל הכא איכא שיעורא וזיל הכא איכא שיעורא מהו דתימא בעינן עקירה והנחה בחדא מחשבה והא ליכא קמ"ל

Raba asked: What if one carries out half as much as a dried fig for sowing, but it swells<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the size of a dried fig — i.e., before he deposited it, and he changes his mind likewise before depositing it. ');">⁶</span> and he decides [to use it] for food? Can you argue, only there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the preceding case. ');">⁷</span> is he culpable, because consider it from this point of view [and] there is the standard, and consider it from that point of view and there is the standard: whereas here, since it did not contain the standard of food when he carried it out, he is not culpable. Or perhaps, since he would be culpable for his intention of sowing if he were silent and did not intend it [for another purpose],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Intention must be verbally expressed, and is not merely mental. ');">⁸</span>

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