Quotation for Shabbat 224:7
ואמרת לן עליה פנים חדשות באו לכאן הכא נמי פנים חדשות באו לכאן
We learnt elsewhere: As for all utensils belonging to private people, their standards are [holes as large] as pomegranates.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If they are unclean, and then broken, the holes being large enough to allow a pomegranate to fall through, they cease to be utensils and become clean; cf. supra 95b. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> Hezekiah asked: What if it [a utensil] receives a hole [large enough] for an olive to fall through, and he [the owner] closes it, then it receives another hole<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At the side of the first. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>
Mishnah Kelim
All [wooden] vessels that belong to householder [become clean if the holes in them are] the size of pomegranates. Rabbi Eliezer says: [the size of the hole depends] on what it is used for. Gardeners’ vegetable baskets [become clean if the holes in them are] the size of bundles of vegetables. Baskets of householders [become clean if the holes in them are] the size of [bundles] of straws. Those of bath-keepers, if bundles of chaff [will drop through]. Rabbi Joshua says: in all these the size is that of pomegranates.
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