One may not set aside <i>Terumah</i> from one species for a different species. And if he set the <i>Terumah</i> aside, his <i>Terumah</i> is not [valid] <i>Terumah</i>. All species of wheat are [considered] one [species]. All species of figs and dried figs and pressed figs are one, and one may set aside <i>Terumah</i> from one for the other. Any place where there is a <i>Kohen</i> [member of priestly caste], the <i>Terumah</i> should be set aside from the finer species. And any place where there is not a <i>Kohen</i>, the <i>Terumah</i> should be set aside from the longer lasting species. Rabbi Yehudah said, he should always set the <i>Terumah</i> aside from the finer species.
Tosefta Terumot
One may not take terumah from one type on behalf of a different type, but they said (Ter. 2:4), all types of wheat are one, [and] all types of beans, and nuts, and almonds, and pomegranates are one, [and] we [may] take terumah and tithes from one on behalf of the other. [If] someone had black figs and white [figs] inside his house, and similarly, two types of wheat, we [may] take terumah and tithes from one on behalf of the other. Rabbi Yitzchak says in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, Beit Shammai say, we do not take terumah [in such cases], and Beit Hillel say, we [are permitted to] take terumah.
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Tosefta Terumot
We [may] take terumah of wheat on behalf of bread, but not bread on behalf of wheat except according to the proportion [of wheat in the bread]. We [may] take terumah of fresh figs on behalf of dried figs according to measure, and dried figs on behalf of fresh figs according to their number, but not fresh figs on behalf of dried figs according to their number, and not dried figs on behalf of fresh figs according to their measure. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, [with respect to] baskets of fresh figs and baskets of dried figs, they are all equivalent, [and we may] take terumah and tithes from this one on behalf of that one. Rabbi Yishmael son of Rabbi Yosei recounted, "My father would take 10 dried figs from the storage yard [and use them as tithes] on behalf of 90 fresh figs that were in the fruit basket."
