Talmud for Pesachim 69:2
אמר רב שימי בר אשי אף אנן נמי תנינא טבל ועלה אוכל במעשר העריב שמשו אוכל בתרומה בתרומה אין בקדשים לא אמאי טהור הוא אלא מעלה ה"נ מעלה
[Thus] only terumah, but not sacred food.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If his uncleanness requires a sacrifice, e.g.. in the case of a zab, he may not eat sacred food until he has brought the sacrifice, though he is completely clean.');"><sup>3</sup></span> Yet why so? He is clean?
Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim
It was stated202Tosephta 2:17, Ḥallah 1:1; Babli 35a.: “Rebbi Joḥanan ben Nuri said, qeramit203According to the Geonim (Ozar Hageonim Pesaḥim p. 33) a grain growing wild among reeds in swamps, used as human food in times of famine. In the opinion of I. Löw, (Flora der Juden l, p. 703) Glyceria fluitans. a grain preferring swampy ground, frequently used for animal feed, also for soups and flour. {Also cf. Latin gramen, -inis, n. “grass, dog’s grass” (Plin. Hist. Nat.24,19,118, §178) (E.G.)}. is obligated for ḥallah.” Rebbi Joḥanan ben Nuri said, 204Here starts a Genizah text edited by L Ginzberg (Yerushalmi Fragments from the Genizah. New York 1909, pp. 102–115.) it can be either mazzah or leavened., but the rabbis say, it cannot be either mazzah or leavened. Let them check! They disagree about the outcome of the checking. Rebbi Joḥanan ben Nuri said, they checked and found that it can be either mazzah or leavened., but the rabbis say, they checked and did not find that it can be either mazzah or leavened.
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