Commentary for Shabbat 181:7

בעא מיניה רבא מרב נחמן זרק כזית תרומה לבית טמא מהו למאי אי לענין שבת כגרוגרת בעינן אי לענין טומאה כביצה אוכלין בעינן לעולם לענין שבת וכגון דאיכא פחות מכביצה אוכלין והאי משלימו לביצה מאי מדמצטרף לענין טומאה מיחייב נמי לענין שבת או דילמא כל לענין שבת כגרוגרת בעינן א"ל תניתוה אבא שאול אומר שתי הלחם ולחם הפנים שיעורן כגרוגרת ואמאי לימא מדלענין

we require the size of a dried fig? If in respect of defilement,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whether it becomes unclean. ');">¹⁴</span> we require food as much as an egg? — After all, it is in respect of the Sabbath, [the circumstances being] e.g., that there is food less than an egg in quantity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Already in the house. ');">¹⁵</span> and this makes it up to an egg in quantity.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it alights near the first, touching it, and so both become unclean. ');">¹⁶</span> What then: since it combines in respect of defilement he is also culpable in respect to the Sabbath; or perhaps in all matters relating to the Sabbath we require the size of a dried fig? — Said he to him, We have learnt it: Abba Saul said: As for the two loaves of bread,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. XXIII, 17. ');">¹⁷</span> and the shewbread,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. Ex. XXV, 30. ');">¹⁸</span> their standard is the size of a dried fig.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if one carries them out on the Sabbath, this is the minimum quantity involving culpability. ');">¹⁹</span> But why so: let us say, since in respect of

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