Talmud for Terumot 5:4

סְאָה תְרוּמָה טְמֵאָה שֶׁנָּפְלָה לְמֵאָה סְאָה תְרוּמָה טְהוֹרָה, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹסְרִים, וּבֵית הִלֵּל מַתִּירִין. אָמְרוּ בֵית הִלֵּל לְבֵית שַׁמַּאי, הוֹאִיל וּטְהוֹרָה אֲסוּרָה לְזָרִים וּטְמֵאָה אֲסוּרָה לְכֹהֲנִים, מַה טְּהוֹרָה עוֹלָה, אַף טְמֵאָה תַּעֲלֶה. אָמְרוּ לָהֶם בֵּית שַׁמַּאי, לֹא, אִם הֶעֱלוּ הַחֻלִּין הַקַּלִּין הַמֻּתָּרִין לְזָרִים אֶת הַטְּהוֹרָה, תַּעֲלֶה תְרוּמָה הַחֲמוּרָה הָאֲסוּרָה לְזָרִים אֶת הַטְּמֵאָה. לְאַחַר שֶׁהוֹדוּ, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, תֵּרוֹם וְתִשָּׂרֵף. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אָבְדָה בְמִעוּטָהּ:

If a Se'ah of impure Terumah fell into a hundred Se'ah of pure Terumah: Beit Shammai prohibits, but Beit Hillel permits. Beit Hillel said to Beit Shammai: since pure [Terumah] is forbidden to non-priests and impure [Terumah is forbidden] to priests, then just as pure [Terumah] may be brought up, so too may impure [Terumah] be brought up. Beit Shammai answered them: No! If lenient Chulin, which is permitted to non-priests, may allow us to bring up pure [Terumah that fell into it], does stringent Terumah, which is forbidden to non-priests, allow us to bring up impure [Terumah that fell into it]? After they agreed, Rabbi Eliezer said: it should be set aside as Terumah and burned. But the Sages say: it has disappeared on account of its being a minor [portion of the mixture].

Jerusalem Talmud Sheviit

“One does not plant, sink, or graft in the year preceding a Sabbatical year later than thirty days before the New Year; if he planted, sank, or grafted he has to uproot it.” If one did not uproot, what is with its yield⁴⁵Since a newly planted or grafted tree is forbidden for three years as orlah, the question is the status of a forbidden tree after three years. A parallel to this text is in Ma‘aser Šeni1:1 (fol. 52c).? Rebbi Abba and Rebbi La were sitting in Tyre when a case came before them. Rebbi La taught that the fruits should be thrown away. Rebbi Abba said, I was not counted with them on the upper floor⁴⁶Most cases in which the Mishnah reports on the circumstances in which a rabbinic restriction was decreed, it is said that the Sages assembled on the upper floor (e. g., Šabbat 1:2). Rebbi Abba wants to say that he was no party to the tannaïtic deliberations in the matter; he objects to R. La’s statement that the fruits produced by a tree planted in the Sabbatical are permanently forbidden.. They said, let us go out and study. They went out and heard Rebbi Jonah, Rebbi Isaac bar Tevele in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: One does not make a new restriction. Rebbi Yose, Rebbi Isaac bar Tevele in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: One does not add to a restriction⁴⁷Since the Mishnah does not state that the fruits are permanently forbidden, no Amora has the power to decree that they should be forbidden.
It seems that in the text, גזירה “restriction” should be replaced by הלכה “practice”. This is the reading of the Rome ms. here in both instances, and of the Venice text in Ma‘aser Šeni in the second statement. גזירה is a Babylonian form for Galilean גדירה, cf. Demay, Chapter 1, Note 89. Intrusions of Babylonian spelling and terminology are infrequent but found in almost all tractates of the Yerushalmi; they probably were introduced by scribes learned in the Babli. This increases the importance of the testimony of the Rome ms. in these cases; the scribe of that ms. was, in the words of R. S. Lieberman, בור ועם הארץ “uncivilized and uneducated”..

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Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah

HALAKHAH: Not only his table, but even a place for his table⁹²It is implied by the Mishnah that the House of Shammai require a sukkah which accommodates most of a person’s body and a table. This does not imply that a table must actually be put into the sukkah; all that is needed is space for a table.. How much is a place for his table? A hand-breadth⁹³A hand-breadth square. It is one of the peculiarities of the idioms of both Talmudim that linear and volume measures are clearly named, but area measures (other than agricultural ones determined by the amount of seeds used for a unit) are subsumed under the names of the corresponding linear measures..

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