Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 165:5

פשיטא שוחקות אתא לאשמועינן

to be the size of two eggs and a slight surplus.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and more'.');">¹¹</span> How much was that surplus? - A twentieth part of an egg.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In respect of each egg of capacity.');">¹²</span> In respect of the levitical uncleanness of food, however, it was taught: R'Nathan and R'Dosa explained that the size of the egg of which the Rabbis have spoken<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As being susceptible to levitical uncleanness.');">¹³</span>

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