Commentary for Yoma 165:14

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> ת"ר מניין היו יודעין שהאירו עיניו משיבחין בין טוב לרע אמר אביי ובטעמא

Our Rabbis taught: If one was seized by a ravenous hunger, one feeds him with the less forbidden things first; as between tebel [untithed food] and carrion,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whenever the permitted and forbidden food alone are insufficient to restore the patient, one should proceed by eliminating as far as possible the more forbidden foods. Untithed food involves punishment of death by divine hand, whereas the eating of carrion involves only the castigation by stripes.');">¹⁴</span> one should feed him carrion first; between tebel and fruit of the seventh year, one should give him the fruit of the seventh year first.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Similarly is the fruit of the seventh year less 'forbidden', its eating implies much less penalty than the eating of untithed food, because there only the transgression of a positive commandment is involved.');">¹⁵</span> As between terumah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">¹⁶</span>

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