Reference for Yoma 159:8

לא שב מידיעתו אין מביא קרבן על שגגתו

- If you take hold of too large a thing, you may lose your hold, but if you take hold of the lesser thing, you will retain your hold'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A proverb: v. R.H. 4b. In the case of two possible interpretations, always choose the smaller as the more likely one.');">¹¹</span> But say: the egg of a little bird, that is very small? - Abbahu said in his own name: 'All food there in which may be eaten', i.e.,food which you may eat in one swallowing; and the Sages measured that the esophagus cannot hold more than the size of a hen's egg.

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