Mesorat%20hashas for Berakhot 70:16

ומשחא לא זיין והתנן הנודר מן המזון מותר במים ובמלח והוינן בה מים ומלח הוא דלא אקרי מזון הא כל מילי אקרי מזון

Oil does not nourish ? Lo, there is a Mishnaic teaching : He who vows [to abstain] from food may partake of water and salt ! And we argue that water and salt are not called "food," but everything else is so called ; and we further say that this is a refutation of Rab and Samuel who maintain that

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