Related%20passage for Yevamot 162:6

קתני מיהת רישא תעלה אמר רבי חייא בריה דרב הונא בנימוחה

R. Johanan holds the view that the reading<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Mishnah cited. ');">¹⁵</span> was, 'That which one is wont to count'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra p. 551, n. 11. Only such objects cannot be neutralized. Cakes of figs and pieces of meat, however, since some people do not always sell them singly but in bulk, are of less commercial importance and may, therefore, be neutralized. ');">¹⁶</span> while Resh Lakish holds the view that the reading was 'Whatsoever one is wont to count'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra p. 551, nn. 7 and 8. As cakes of figs are sometimes sold by being counted singly. they are regarded as commercially important objects which, were they Pentateuchally forbidden, could never be neutralized. As it was stated, however, that a cake of figs of terumah may be neutralized, it follows, according to Resh Lakish, that terumah at the present time is only a Rabbinical, and not a Pentateuchal ordinance. ');">¹⁷</span>

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