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Talmud for Nazir 6:1

שְׁלשָׁה מִינִין אֲסוּרִין בַּנָּזִיר, הַטֻּמְאָה וְהַתִּגְלַחַת וְהַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגָּפֶן. וְכָל הַיּוֹצֵא מִן הַגֶּפֶן מִצְטָרְפִין זֶה עִם זֶה. וְאֵינוֹ חַיָּב עַד שֶׁיֹּאכַל מִן הָעֲנָבִים כַּזָּיִת. מִשְׁנָה רִאשׁוֹנָה, עַד שֶׁיִּשְׁתֶּה רְבִיעִית יַיִן. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, אֲפִלּוּ שָׁרָה פִתּוֹ בְיַיִן וְיֶשׁ בָּהּ כְּדֵי לְצָרֵף כַּזַּיִת, חַיָּב:

Three things are forbidden to a Nazirite: Uncleanliness [(Numbers 6:6): "Upon the soul of a dead one he shall not come."], shaving [(Ibid. 5): "A blade shall not pass over his head."], and what comes from the vine [(Ibid. 3): "And grapes, wet or dry, he shall not eat."] And everything that comes from the vine [such as grapes, wet and dry, kernels and husk] combine with each other [to an olive-size, making one liable to stripes.] And he is not liable until he eats an olive-size of grapes. And the quantity for drinking is, likewise, an olive-size. For since it is written: "And grapes, wet and dry, he shall not eat," we derive: Just as with eating, an olive-size, so with drinking, an olive-size.] An earlier Mishnah: (He is not liable) until he drinks a revi'ith of wine. [The earlier Mishnah apprises us that we derive it in the opposite manner, eating from drinking. And the quantity for drinking for a Nazirite (to be liable) is a revi'ith, this being derived "shechar" (strong drink) (Numbers 6:3) - "shechar" (Leviticus 10:9), from (what is written in respect to) the sanctuary. And just as the prohibited drinking quantity is a revi'ith, so the prohibited eating quantity is a revi'ith.] R. Akiva says: Even if one soaks his bread in wine and there is enough to combine to an olive-size, he is liable. [R. Akiva holds that the prohibited quantity for a Nazirite, both for eating and for drinking is an olive-size, and the permitted (food) combines with the forbidden to complete the (forbidden) quantity. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Akiva.]

Jerusalem Talmud Orlah

Who stated “they combine with one another”? Rebbi Meïr, since Rebbi Abbahu said in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan56Quoted in Babli Avodah Zarah66a. In the printed version (not in the Munich ms.) “R. Jehudah in the name of R. Meïr”, a most unlikely text since R. Jehudah was half a generation older than R. Meïr.: The word of Rebbi Meïr is that all forbidden [foods] combine with one another to whip for them in the volume of an olive since it says: (Deut. 14:3) “You shall not eat any abomination57There is one law which covers all forbidden food. Therefore, if somebody is warned not to eat any abomination he can be convicted if he ate the volume of an olive composed of several tiny pieces forbidden for different reasons..”
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Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin

Rebbi Ḥiyya said that Rebbi Yasa asked: We have stated227Mishnah 6:2.: “The herald goes before him: ‘X ben Y is led to be stoned because he committed crime Z; U and V testified against him. Anybody who knows of his innocence shall come and argue.’ ” We inferred that he who hears from one who heard has to rend. Does he who hears from one who heard from one who heard have to rend228Does everybody who hears the herald have to rend his garment? Since this is not mentioned in the Mishnah, the implied answer to the question is negative.?
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