Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 101:1

המרבה במעשר פירותיו מתוקנים ומעשרות מקולקלין ואמאי נימא כל שאינו בזה אחר זה אפי' בבת אחת אינו

If one gives excessive tithes, his produce is made fit, but his tithes are unfit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'spoiled'. After measuring off four measures, he separated one whole measure as tithe, instead of the half (= one tenth) due. Actually. however, only half becomes tithe, while the other half remains ordinary, untithed produce (tebel) , and the two are inextricably mixed up. No man may eat tebel, not even a priest or a Levite, and hence the whole tithe is forbidden until it is made fit by a further proportionate separation.');">¹</span> But why; let us say: That which cannot be [done] consecutively cannot be [done] simultaneously?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For if he first separates half a measure as tithe and then another half, the second is certainly not tithe. Accordingly, when he separates the whole simultaneously, none of it is tithe, on Rabbah's principle: why then is the produce fit?');">²</span>

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