Commentary for Zevachim 60:17

אם כן מרתח רתח

For if I ask about 'as much as an olive. and as much as an olive,' it is well if he answers me that it is a comprehensive statement,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. it is a mingling of intentions.');">²⁷</span> then all the more is it so [in the case of] 'as much as an olive on the morrow without'; but if he answers me that it is a detailed enumeration, then I will still have the question about 'as much as an olive on the morrow without'. If so,[the same objection can be urged] now too: it is well if he answered him that 'as much as an olive on the morrow without' constitutes a detailed enumeration, then all the more is it so in the case of 'as much as an olive and as much as an olive'. But if he answered him that it i a comprehensive statement, he would still have the question: [what about] 'as much as an olive and as much as an olive'? - If so, he [Rabbi] would have shewn asperity:

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