Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 105:9

ושנכנס לירושלים ויצא ואמאי וליהדר ונעייליה בשנטמא ונפרקיה דאמר ר' אלעזר מנין למעשר שני שנטמא שפודין אותו

and these two cannot be combined. Then let an <i>issar</i> be brought?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And tithe produce to a lesser value be redeemed therewith, the excess being used for the redemption of the mixed tithe. For though one and a half perutahs' worth cannot consecrate two perutahs, that is because they are two separate coins, hence divisible, and so one can become consecrated whilst the other remains hullin. If a single larger coin, however, is employed, the whole becomes consecrated, whilst the excess can retrospectively redeem the mixed tithe. ');">²⁵</span> — [That is forbidden,] lest he bring perutahs [for that purpose]. 'Or which has once entered Jerusalem and gone forth again.' But why so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why may the intermixed tithe be neutralised? ');">²⁶</span> Let it be taken back again! — It refers to defiled [tithe]. Then let it be redeemed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It being assumed that this refers even to produce worth a perutah. ');">²⁷</span> For R. Eleazar said: Whence do we know if second tithe [produce] became defiled, that it is to be redeemed

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