Quotation for Berakhot 27:7

בעי מיניה אשיאן תנא דבי ר' אמי מר' אמי השרוי בתענית מהו שיטעום אכילה ושתיה קביל עליה והא ליכא או דילמא הנאה קביל עליה והא איכא

[He asked of him] Ashyan, a Tanna of the school of R. Ammi, asked R. Ammi : May one who is undergoing a fast taste anything? If he has taken upon himself [to abstain from] eating and drinking, it comes under the heading of neither ; or is it that he has taken upon himself [to abstain from] any kind of gratification, and [tasting] is to be so regarded?

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