Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 87:8

אי הכי אמאי פליגי רבנן עליה דר"א בכותח הבבלי

How is that conceivable?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' " when="" a="" lay="" israelite="" eats="" as="" much="" an="" olive="" of="" that="" dish,="" he="" has="" not="" eaten="" quantity="" terumah.="" why="" then="" is="" flagellated?');"="">⁹</span> Is it not because the permitted [commodity] combines with the forbidden [commodity]? - No: what does 'as much as an olive' mean: that there is as much as an olive within the time of eating half [a loaf].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if he eats as much as half a loaf of eight average eggs in size, this half constituting an average meal, within the time that the normal eater requires for a meal, he will have eaten as much as an olive of terumah, and for that he is culpable. [According to Maim. Yad 'Erubin,, half a loaf is equivalent to three average eggs].');">¹⁰</span>

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