Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 108:6

(ותנן) המרבה במעשרות פירותיו מתוקנים ומעשרותיו מקולקלין

Come and hear: One may give by number fresh figs [as tithe] in respect of pressed figs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus ten fresh figs may be given as tithe in respect of ninety pressed figs.');">⁷</span> Now if you hold that we measure a thing in the condition in which it was before, it is well;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Accordingly the pressed figs are considered in the condition in which they were before, namely fresh; and therefore ten fresh figs would be the exact quantity for the tithe, whether we reckon the tithe by number or by capacity.');">⁸</span> but if you hold that we measure in the condition in which it is now, then too much is given as tithe,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For reckoning by capacity ten fresh figs would probably take up as much as one fifth of the capacity of ninety pressed figs.');">⁹</span>

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