Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 61:8

דלמא דלא הדר מלייה

Whence [does this follow]? - Because the second clause teaches: If each falls separately on a loaf of terumah, they render it unfit; if they both fall [o simultaneously, they render it second degree.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In hullin (non-sacred food) there is nothing below second degree, so that if second degree food touches hullin, the latter remains clean. In terumah (q.v. Glos.) there is a third degree, but it goes no further, and the terumah is then called unfit, but not unclean, since it cannot defile other terumah. Now, if each of these separated masses falls on terumah consecutively, the terumah is disqualified only, since neither mass contains as much of first degree to render it second. But if they both fall on it together, as much as an egg of first degree has touched it at the same moment, and therefore the terumah becomes unclean in the second degree, so that it can render other terumah unfit. This proves that the firsts in each combine, and the same is true here.');">⁵</span>

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