One may not set aside <i>Terumah</i> [produce set aside for priestly consumption] from the pure for the impure. And if they set the <i>Terumah</i> aside, their <i>Terumah</i> is [valid] <i>Terumah</i>. Truly they said, the fig round, some of which has been made impure, one may set aside <i>Terumah</i> from the pure that is in it for the impure that is in it. And so too with a bundle of greenery, and so too with a pile. If there were two rounds, two bundles, or two piles--one impure and one pure--one may not set aside <i>Terumah</i> from one for the other. Rabbi Eliezer says: one may set aside <i>Terumah</i> from the pure for the impure.
Tosefta Terumot
[If there are] five collections [of produce] on the threshing floor, terumah [may be] taken from one on behalf of all, said Rabbi Yehudah. When is this? At the time that the major part (עיקר) of the [produce of the] threshing floor still remains. If the major part of the threshing floor does not remain, terumah is taken from each collection separately. One who brings produce inside his house, even though they are scattered (מְפוּזָּרִין, see Megillah 13b:18), he [may] take terumah from one on behalf of everything. [If there were] two piles that were heaped together (see Ter. 4:12), he takes terumah from each and every one. If had sacks of produce or rounds of fig cake or דוגיות of dried figs, we [may] take terumah from everything in one basket, and take tithes from one on behalf of the other.
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We may take terumah from a stack [of grain] on behalf of a pile, but not from a pile on behalf of a stack.
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[In summary,] we [may] separate terumah and tithes from the impure on behalf of the impure, and from the the pure on behalf of the pure, and from the impure on behalf of the pure, but not from the pure on behalf of the impure (contrary to Rabbi Eliezer above (and see Bava Kamma 115b:14)). Rabbi Nehemiah says, we do not separate [terumah] from the impure on behalf of the impure, but only as to demai. They said to him, behold, it says (Num. 18:28), "... and [they] are to give from them the contribution of God to Aharon the priest" (i.e., the Torah does not distinguish between pure and impure in relation to terumah).
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One who separates terumah and tithes on Shabbat, whether unwittingly or intentionally, his tithes are [valid] tithes, and one who immerses [impure] utensils on Shabbat, whether unwittingly or intentionally, the immersion counts (contra Ter. 2:3 [invalidating intentional tithing and immersion on Shabbat]).
