If a <i>Se'ah</i> of impure <i>Terumah</i> fell into a hundred [<i>Se'ah</i>] of pure <i>Chulin</i>, Rabbi Eliezer says: [a <i>Se'ah</i>] must be set aside as <i>Terumah</i> and burned, for I say that the <i>Se'ah</i> that fell in is the <i>Se'ah</i> that was brought up. But the Sages say: it may be brought up and eaten in small quantities, or roasted, or kneaded with fruit juice, or divided into pieces of dough so that there is not in any one place [a piece of dough] the size of an egg.
Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
סאה תרומה טמאה שנפלה למאה חולין טהורים – and now the heave-offering is neutralized in one-and one hundred and everything is not made into a combination of heave-offering and unconsecrated produce that is prohibited to all non-priests. But the pure unconsecrated produce is not made fit to receive ritual impurity, nor does the ritually impure unconsecrated produce defile them.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
Introduction
Today’s mishnah deals with a case where a seah of unclean terumah fell into a seah of clean hullin. The terumah is unclean but it doesn’t cause the hullin to become unclean because it is not wet (as we learned in yesterday’s mishnah).
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Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
תרום ותשרף – just as if the pure heave-offering was neutralized and eaten, so too, that which is ritually impure should be separated as heave-offering and burned. And that being burned is similar to that rotting, for it is prohibited to benefit from it at the time when you burn it, for if you permitted it be able to derive benefit from it, you might come to eat it, for he holds that it is permitted through renunciation.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
A seah of unclean terumah which fell into a hundred of clean hullin: Rabbi Eliezer says: [a seah] must be taken out and burnt, for I say that the seah taken out is the one that fell in. Rabbi Eliezer holds that the seah of terumah has to be taken out but that it can’t be eaten because we assume that the seah that is taken out is the seah of terumah that fell in and was unclean.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Terumot
תעלה ותאכל נקודים – as dry stuff, all of this as we have explained above (in Mishnah 1 of this chapter), and the Halakha is according to the Sages.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Terumot
But the sages say: it may be taken out and eaten in small quantities, or roasted, or kneaded with fruit juice, or divided into pieces of dough so that the size of one egg be not in any one place. The other rabbis hold that when the seah of terumah fell into the pile of 100 seahs of hullin it was nullified in the pile, so when he took a seah out we don’t assume that it is the same one that fell in. However, there is still 1/100 parts of the pile that is unclean and therefore part of that which he takes out is unclean. In order to prevent the unclean part from impurifying the clean part he must eat it in the same way described in the end of yesterday’s mishnah. We should note that what he gives to the priest is not actually terumah, for if it were, the priest wouldn’t be able to eat it unclean terumah is forbidden. The portion that the person takes out of the pile and gives to the priest is hullin that replaces the terumah owed to him. Unclean hullin can be eaten, however in this case since the priest received the seah in place of terumah owed to him, he must preserve its purity and eat it so that it doesn’t all become impure.
