Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 108:1

כי פליגי כגון שהיה בו כשיעור וצמק וחזר ותפח דמר סבר יש דיחוי באיסורא ומר סבר אין דיחוי באיסורא

They differ only in the case where it was at first of the prescribed size but it shrivelled up and then it swelled up again. One is of the opinion that with forbidden things there can be an absolute rejection of the prohibition,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Resh Lakish and his colleagues maintain that when the forbidden thing shrivelled up to less than the prescribed quantity the prohibition thereof vanished completely, and, by the law of the Torah, cannot return even though the substance later swelled up to the prescribed size.');">¹</span> but the other maintains that there can be no such absolute rejection.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Johanan and his colleagues hold that the prohibition has only been suspended temporarily.');">²</span>

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