Quoting%20commentary for Pesachim 98:18

הכא בסברא פליגי דרבי מאיר סבר חזרתו כטומאתו מה טומאתו בכביצה אף חזרתו בכביצה ור' יהודה סבר חזרתו

But the following contradicts it: For what [minimum] quantity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'how far?'');">²⁰</span> must they recite grace in common?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When three or more people dine together they must recite grace in common, prefacing it with the statement, 'Let us say grace', and they must not separate before this is done, even if each intends reciting grace alone. Here the question is: what is the minimum meal for which this is necessary?');">²¹</span> Until as much as an olive.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That is the minimum. Until ('ad) is meant in a diminishing sense.');">²²</span> R'Judah said: Until as much as an egg! - Said R'Johanan: The discussion<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the opinions,');">²³</span> must be reversed. Abaye said, After all you need not reverse [it]: there they differ in [the interpretation of Scriptural] verses, [whereas] here they differ in a matter of logic.' There they differ in [the interpretation of] verses':R'Meir holds: And thou shalt eat,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. VIII, 10.');">²⁴</span> this refers to eating; and be satisfied, this means drinking, and eating is [constituted] by as much as an olive.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the minimum called eating, e.g.. for eating this quantity of forbidden food liability is incurred; the command to eat unleavened bread on the first night of Passover means at least as much as an olive. The verse continues: and thou shalt bless the Lord thy God - i.e., recite grace.');">²⁵</span> While R'Judah holds: 'And thou shalt eat and be satisfied' [implies] eating in which there is satisfaction [of one's hunger], and what is that? As much as an egg.' Here they differ in a matter of logic', for R'Meir holds: Its return is like its defilement:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the same quantity of leaven which is subject to defilement as an eatable necessitates returning in order to remove it.');">²⁶</span> just as its defilement requires as much as an egg, so does its return require as much as an egg. While R'Judah holds, its return

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