אמר רבא הריני כבן עזאי בשוקי טבריא אמר ליה ההוא מרבנן לרבא תפוחים בכמה אמר ליה וכי מערבין בתפוחים
[to make up the prescribed quantity] of half of a half loaf<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' . The peras is equal to the size of four eggs (cf. Rashi a.l.) .');"><sup>10</sup></span> in respect of rendering the body<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of a priest.');"><sup>11</sup></span> unfit,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To eat terumah, although, since no foodstuffs can impart uncleanness to a human being by means of touch, he does not thereby become unclean.');"><sup>12</sup></span> or [to make up the quantity of] food for two meals required for an 'erub, or the size of an egg in respect of imparting food defilement? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Me'il IV, 5, Ker. 13a.');"><sup>13</sup></span>
Tosefta Peah
We do not reduce [the agricultural gifts] to the poor during the years of of the poor person's tithe (i.e., the third and sixth years of the agricultural cycle) to less than half a kav of wheat or a kav of barley (Peah 8:5). In what context does this apply? [For grain that has been brought in to] the threshing floor, but [for grain brought] inside his house, we give [the poor person] any amount (כל שהו not כל שדהו), and we are not concerned [that it is too little]. And [similarly for] the remainder of the priestly gifts and the [gifts for the] Levite, we give any amount, and we are not concerned [that it is too little]. [If he is saving some to give to his poor relatives, see Peah 8:6], he can save half and give half. Abba Yosa ben Dostai said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, "[If he] wants, he [can] place before [the poor people] a third and retain two-thirds for his [poor] relatives."
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