Berakhot 41B

שיעורן כרמונים.

as an impure vessel loses its status as a vessel and consequently its impurity when it can no longer be used, if they have holes the size of pomegranates.

״ארץ זית שמן״, אמר רבי יוסי ברבי חנינא: ארץ שכל שיעוריה כזיתים. כל שיעוריה סלקא דעתך?! והא איכא הנך דאמרן! אלא ארץ שרוב שיעוריה כזיתים.

A land of olive oil: R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, said that the verse should be expounded as follows: A land, all of whose measures are the size of olives. The Talmud poses a question: Can it enter your mind that it is a land all of whose measures are the size of olives? Aren’t there those measures that we mentioned above, which are not the size of olives? Rather, say: A land, most of whose measures are the size of olives, as most of the measures relating to forbidden foods and other matters are the size of olives.

״דבש״, ככותבת הגסה ביום הכפורים. ואידך ⁠— הני שיעורין בהדיא מי כתיבי? אלא מדרבנן, וקרא אסמכתא בעלמא.

Honey, i.e., dates from which date honey is extracted, also alludes to a measurement. With regard to Yom Kippur, one is only liable if he eats the equivalent of a large date on Yom Kippur. The Talmud asks: And what will the other amora, who interpreted the verse as referring to the halakhot of precedence in blessings, say with regard to this midrash? The Talmud responds: Are these measures written explicitly in the Torah? Rather, they are by rabbinic law, and the verse is a mere support, an allusion to these measures.

רב חסדא ורב המנונא הוו יתבי בסעודתא. אייתו לקמייהו תמרי ורמוני. שקל רב המנונא, בריך אתמרי ברישא. אמר ליה רב חסדא: לא סבר לה מר להא דאמר רב יוסף, ואיתימא רבי יצחק: כל המוקדם בפסוק זה קודם לברכה?

With regard to the halakhot of precedence in blessings, the Talmud relates: Rav Ḥisda and Rav Hamnuna were sitting at a meal. They brought dates and pomegranates before them. Rav Hamnuna took and recited a blessing over the dates first. Rav Ḥisda said to him: Does the Master not hold that halakha which Rav Yosef, and some say R' Yitzḥak, said: Each food that precedes the others in this verse, precedes the others in terms of blessing as well? The pomegranate precedes the date in that verse.