Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Zevachim 160:4

הא תחתונים עלו לו קתני לשם שירים

Come and hear: IF [BLOOD] WHICH REQUIRES ONE APPLICATION [WAS MIXED] WITH BLOOD [ALSO] REQUIRING ONE APPLICATION, IT [THE MIXTURE] SHOULD BE PRESENTED WITH ONE APPLICATION. Now, if you say that there is no even distribution, why should it be presented with one application? perhaps he sprinkles [the blood] of one [sacrifice] but not that of the other? - It means, e.g., where one [minimum quantity] was mixed with another [minimum quantity]. [BLOOD] WHICH REQUIRES FOUR APPLICATIONS WITH [BLOOD] THAT REQUIRES FOUR APPLICATIONS? There too it means that [the quantity for] four [applications] was mixed with [the quantity for] four [applications]. [BLOOD] WHICH<br>

Teshuvot Maharam

Q. Dough of a Gentile [which is exempt from the law of Hallah] was mixed with a piece of dough belonging to a Jew which by itself, was sufficient to become subject to the law of Hallah. How can the Jew take Hallah for, or from, the mixture?
A. In order to make sure that he takes Hallah from dough that is subject to that law, the Jew must take as Hallah a piece that is larger than the Gentile's dough.
SOURCES: Cr. 40; Pr. 423; P. 225; cf. Am I, 59.
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