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איקלע רב הונא בריה דרב נחמן למחוזא, אמר ליה רבא לרב אליקים שמעיה: טרוק גלי, דלא ניתו אינשי דניטריד.
Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, happened to come to Meḥoza. Rava said to his attendant, Rav Elyakim: Close, close the gates, so that people who might disturb us should not come, and we may focus on clarifying the matter.
על לגביה, אמר ליה: כי האי גוונא מאי? אמר ליה: אסור אפילו בהנאה. והא מר הוא דאמר: שיכשך אין עושה יין נסך! אימר דאמרי אנא – לבר מדמיה דההוא חמרא, דמי דההוא חמרא מי אמרי?
Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, entered into Rava’s presence. Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, said to Rava: What is the halakha in a case like this where a non-Jew stirred the wine without intending to offer it as an idolatrous libation? Rava said to Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman: It is prohibited even to derive benefit from it. Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, asked him: But wasn’t it you, Master, who said: If a non-Jew stirs the wine, he does not thereby render it wine used for a libation, as Rava permitted the sale of the wine in the jug to non-Jews? Rava answered: Say that I said that it is permitted to sell the wine that was in the jug and benefit from all the proceeds except for the monetary value of that prohibited wine that was poured into the jug of wine. Did I say that it is permitted to derive benefit from the monetary value of that prohibited wine?
אמר רבא: כי אתאי לפומבדיתא, אקפן נחמני שמעתתא ומתניתא דאסיר.
Rava said: When I arrived at Pumbedita, Naḥmani, i.e., Abaye, surrounded us with amoraic traditions and with tannaitic sources cited in a baraita that indicate that in the case of wine that was stirred by a non-Jew it is prohibited even to derive benefit from the wine.