Rabbi Yehoshua sagt: Schwarze Feigen können zusammen mit den weißen gezählt werden [um eine weiße Feige zu entfernen, die Terumah ist und in eine Mischung aus schwarzen und weißen Feigen gefallen ist], und das Weiß kann zusammen mit den schwarzen gezählt werden [um eine schwarze Feige zu entfernen ]. Bei Feigenkuchen kann das Große zusammen mit dem Kleinen und das Kleine zusammen mit dem Großen gezählt werden. Die Runde [Feigenkuchen] kann zusammen mit dem Quadrat [Kuchen] gezählt werden, und das Quadrat kann zusammen mit der Runde gezählt werden. Rabbi Eliezer verbietet dies. Rabbi Akiva sagt: Wenn bekannt ist, in was [Art] gefallen ist, kann die eine [Art] nicht zusammen mit der anderen gezählt werden, aber wenn nicht bekannt ist, in was [Art] gefallen ist, kann die eine [Art] sein zusammen mit dem anderen gezählt.
Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
תאנים שחורים מעלות ת הלבנות – a fig of heave-offering, black or white, that fell into one-hundred unconsecrated figs , half of them black and half of hem white, all of them combine to be voided, for if he had wanted, he would tread on them and mix them all together. But if a a black one fell, it neutralizes one from the black ones, and if a white one [fell], it neutralizes one of the white ones, and the remainder are unconsecrated produce as they were.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
Introduction
Our mishnah deals with the issue of whether the kind of terumah that fell into the hullin (non-sacred produce) must be exactly like all of the hullin into which it fell.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
עגולי דבלה – cakes of of figs that are pressed/stamped with a round mold in which figs are pressed, the large ones neutralize the small ones,, if there are fifty small cakes found there and twenty-five large cakes, and one of he large ones is like two of the small ones, and there fell into them a small cake of heave-offering/Terumah, they assist all of them to be nullified. And similarly, round ones neutralize the figs pressed in quadrangular molds, these round ones are pressed in a round mold, the quadrangular ones are figs pressed in the square shape, like a frame/mold that they make the square stamped ones.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
Rabbi Joshua says: black figs can bring up white ones, and white ones can bring up black ones. In the case of cakes of figs, the large can bring up the small, and the small can bring up the large. Round cakes of figs can bring up square cakes, and square cakes can bring up round ones. According to Rabbi Joshua if a black terumah fig fell into a pile of 100 hullin figs, fifty of which were white and fifty black, the owner can remove one fig, give it to the priest and eat the rest. Even though it is clear that the fifty white figs were not the terumah fig that fell in, so that in reality there are only fifty-one figs that could have been the terumah fig (the fifty one black figs), the white figs can join with the black figs to make up the required 100 to 1 ratio. Rabbi Joshua goes on to the say that the same is true if a large cake of figs fell into a pile of small and large cakes of figs, or if a round cake fell into a pile of round and square cakes. Since they are all figs, they all join to create the required ratio to “bring up” the terumah figs.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
רבי אליעזר אוסר – if a black one fell, the black ones are forbidden, and id if what one fell, the white ones are forbidden, and similarly, large and small ones, and round and square ones, that which is similar to what fell are forbidden.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
Rabbi Eliezer prohibits this. Rabbi Eliezer forbids this for the reason that I explained above in this scenario only fifty-one of the figs is potentially terumah and therefore we don’t have the required 100-1 ratio.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
בידו מה נפלה – black or white, they do not neutralize, because one is able to eat the others, and since they are permitted, they do not help to nullify. But if it is not known if black ones fell or white ones fell, that all of them are doubtfully forbidden, they neutralize each other, and he Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiva.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
Rabbi Akiba says: if the kind which fell in is known, then the one kind cannot bring up the other kind, but if the kind is not known, the one kind can bring up the other. Rabbi Akiva mediates between their two opinions. If we know that a white fig fell in, then only white figs can count to the ratio of 100-1. But if we don’t know which color fig fell in, then all of the figs could have been terumah and we will have the required ratio. It seems that conceptually Rabbi Akiva agrees more with Rabbi Eliezer, but that he notes that if we don’t know exactly what fell in, then it doesn’t matter what color the figs are, as long as there is a 100-1 ratio.
