Related%20passage for Tahorot 3:2

רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, הַשֶּׁמֶן תְּחִלָּה לְעוֹלָם. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אַף הַדְּבָשׁ. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן שְׁזוּרִי אוֹמֵר, אַף הַיָּיִן. וְגוּשׁ שֶׁל זֵיתִים שֶׁנָּפַל לְתַנּוּר וְהֻסַּק, כַּבֵּיצָה מְכֻוָּן, טָהוֹר. יוֹתֵר מִכַּבֵּיצָה, טָמֵא, שֶׁכֵּיוָן שֶׁיָּצָאת טִפָּה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה, נִטְמֵאת בְּכַבֵּיצָה. אִם הָיוּ פְרוּדִין, אֲפִלּוּ הֵן סְאָה, טָהוֹר:

Rabbi Meir says: Oil is always primary [in its impurity, i.e. of a first degree level, even if it congeals into a solid]. The sages say: even honey. Rabbi Shimon Shezuri says: even wine. A clump of [impure] olives which fell into an oven and it was lit, if [the olives are] exactly the equivalent of an egg [in volume], it [the oven] is pure [since foods cannot render a vessel impure]; if they are greater than the equivalent of an egg [in volume], it is impure, since once the first drop came out, it [that drop of liquid] was rendered impure by the [remaining] egg's volume [which is a sufficient amount of food to render impurity, and that impure drop then renders the oven impure; but when there is exactly an egg's volume of olives, the first drop of it that melts into liquid is not rendered impure by it, since there is no longer a sufficient measure of food left to render it impure]. If they [the impure olives] are separated [from one another], even if there is a <i>se'ah</i> [a large measure] of them, it [the oven] is pure.

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