Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 115:18

במאי קא מיפלגי אביי סבר יש קומץ פחות משני זיתים

What does this mean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What is meant by 'the whole' and 'the part'?');">¹⁸</span> - Abaye said, It means this: 'Leaven. ye shall not burn'. From this I only know the rule for an olive's bulk,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since this may be the whole handful.');">¹⁹</span> but whence do I know it for a half-olive's bulk?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That this quantity is nevertheless reckoned as a 'burning' and therefore comes under the prohibition of 'ye shall not burn'.');">²⁰</span> Because the text states, 'Any leaven'. And whence do I know it for the mixture?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if the handful consisted of what was partly leavened and partly unleavened and the one was not distinguishable from the other.');">²¹</span> Because the text states, For any leaven'. Raba said, It means this: 'Leaven. ye shall not burn'. From this only know the rule for the [whole] handful, but whence do I know it for half of the handful? Because the text states, 'Any leaven'. And whence do I know it for the mixture? Because the text states, 'For any leaven. Wherein do they differ? - Abaye maintains that the handful may be less than two olives' bulk

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