Responsa for Bava Batra 285:3

אמר רב ששת מנא אמינא לה דתניא רבי יוסי אומר אין לך מר בקישות אלא פנימי שבו לפיכך כשהוא תורם מוסיף על החיצון שבו ותורם

R. Shesheth said: Whence do I derive this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That though the ass and the man were given possession simultaneously. the man acquires ownership of the whole. ');">⁶</span> — For it was taught: R. Jose said: In cucumbers, the inner portion only' is bitter.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'you have not bitter in a cucumber but the inner (portion) which is in it'. ');">⁷</span> Consequently. when a person is giving [a cucumber] as a heave-offering<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For another forty-nine cucumbers. The heave-offering (terumah, v. Glos.) must contain a fiftieth of the produce. ');">⁸</span>

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