לימא בהא קא מיפלגי דמר סבר כמות שהן משערינן ומר סבר לכמות שהיו משערינן
- You may even say that this agrees with the Rabbis too, for although it is not the finest leaven it is, however, an inferior leaven.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is spoilt or hard leaven, and although it is not the best thing to use for leavening the meal-offering, it certainly has a leavening effect upon the substance into which it has been put.');"><sup>4</sup></span> R'Ela said, From no meal-offering is it more difficult to take out the handful than from the sinner's meal-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since it was without oil, the taking of the handful was a difficult operation indeed, for when taking out the handful of dry flour and then smoothing away the flour that is bursting between the fingers, much skill would be required in preventing the flour from slipping out of the hand.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
Tosefta Terumot
A [terumah] apple that was chopped up and placed inside [chullin] dough, and it leavened, Rabbi Yosei says, the leavening [of the apple] is not "leaven" -- regardless of whether it imparted a good taste [to the dough] or whether it imparted a rancid taste, either way it is forbidden, the words of Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Shimon says, [if it imparted] a good taste, it is forbidden, [and if it imparted] a rancid taste, it is permitted, just like [terumah] vinegar that fell into a dish of beans, or a dish of [terumah] beans that fell inside a cistern of water [as all of these worsen the taste of the non-terumah item]. [However,] dates onto which [terumah] wine fell, [or] dried figs onto which [terumah] oil fell, behold these are forbidden. And Rabbi Shimon permits them.
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Mishnah Terumot
If an apple [of terumah] was chopped and placed into dough [of hullin] so that it leavened it, [the dough] is forbidden. If barley [of terumah] fell into a cistern of water, though [the barley] stinks up the water, the water is permissible.
