Related%20passage for Berakhot 74:7

א"ל אביי אלא מעתה לתנא דבי ר"י דאמר פורכן עד שמחזירן לסלתן ה"נ דלא בעי ברוכי המוציא לחם מן הארץ וכי תימא ה"נ והתניא לקט מכולן כזית ואכלן אם חמץ הוא ענוש כרת ואם מצה הוא אדם יוצא בו ידי חובתו בפסח

Abbai said to him : But according to the Tanna of the school of R. Ishmael who declared, "He must crumble [the meal-offerings] until they return to the condition of flour [before eating thereof]," it would then be unnecessary to pronounce the benediction "...Who bringest forth bread from the earth." And if thou sayest that is so, lo there is a teaching : If he gathered together from all of them about the size of an olive and ate them, should it be leaven he incurs the penalty of excision, and if unleaven, a man can therewith comply with the requirements of the law during Passover!

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