Commentary for Sotah 60:8
מ"ס מותר לגרום טומאה לחולין שבארץ ישראל ומר סבר אסור לגרום טומאה לחולין שבארץ ישראל
the other holds that it is not like <i>hallah</i>. If you like I can say that all agree that non-holy food from which <i>hallah</i> had yet to be taken is not like <i>hallah</i> and a second degree of defilement does not create a third with the non-holy; and here they differ on whether it is permitted to apply the laws of defilement to non-holy food in the land of Israel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Ber. 47b R. Meir defines an 'Am ha-arez (v. supra p. 110) as one who does not eat his non-holy food in a condition of ritual purity; but the Rabbis give a different definition. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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