Reference for Yoma 161:9
מתקיף לה רב הושעיא נכתוב רחמנא השמר פן לא תעונה א"כ נפישי להו לאוי
Were the Divine Law to write: 'He shall not eat'? But 'eating' implies [the minimum size of] an olive.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The usual minimum (to render one culpable of having eaten forbidden food) is the quantity of an olive. Had the Torah therefore used the phrase 'He shall not eat', the inference would have been that one who ate the quantity of an olive had thereby transgressed the law; whereas the quantity on the Day of Atonement is dependent on one's coming to, which is the result of having eaten as much as the size of a big date.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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