Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 92:5

שאני התם דנפיק חורבה מינה זימנין דאית ליה לכהן פחות מחמש רבעים קמח והאי אליש ליה בהדי הדדי וקסבר נתקנה עיסתו ואתי למיכלה בטיבלה

For the priest may happen to possess less than five quarters of flour and this besides; he will then knead them together and think that his dough is fit [to be eaten], and thus come to eat it in the state of tebel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. Glos. Five quarters of a kab of flour is the smallest quantity liable to hallah; further, even a priest must separate hallah on dough from which no separation has been made, though he keeps it for himself. Now, if he possesses less, and this completes the quantity, he thinks that it is hallah, and so not liable, and therefore kneads it together with the rest without separating hallah.');">⁷</span> But you say that a man knows that hallah is not separated from flour! - He knows, yet not fully.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he knows and does not know'.');">⁸</span> He knows that hallah is not separated from flour, yet not fully: for he thinks, What is the reason?

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