Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 109:2

ומינה א"ר אלעזר בר רבי יוסי אבא היה נוטל עשר גרוגרות שבמקצוע על תשעים שבכלכלה אי אמרת בשלמא לכמות שהן אמרינן שפיר אלא אי אמרת כמות שהן בציר להו

Now if you hold that we measure in the condition in which it was before, it is well; but if you hold that we measure in the condition in which it is now, then too little is given [as tithe]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For when reckoning by weight the quantity set aside, sc. ten pressed figs, would be much less than a tenth.');">²</span> When R'Dimi came [from Palestine] he reported in the name of R'Eleazar that the case of the pressed figs is different since they can be boiled and so restored to their former condition.

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