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הפיגול והנותר והטמא — בית שמאי אומרים: אין נשרפין כאחת. ובית הלל אומרים: נשרפין כאחת.
The Tosefta continues: Piggul is an offering disqualified by the improper intention during the performance of the 4 sacrificial rites to sacrifice it or eat it after its appropriate time; and notar is the flesh of a sacrifice that is left over beyond its allotted time. The rabbis decreed ritual impurity on both, and both, as well as sacrificial meat deemed ritually impure by Torah law, may not be eaten and must be burned. Beit Shammai say: They may not be burned together, as in doing so the piggul and notar, which are impure by rabbinic law, will come into contact with meat impure by Torah law, adding impurity to their impurity. And Beit Hillel say: They may be burned together.
ואי סלקא דעתך רבי מאיר מדברי רבי יהושע קאמר, אמאי מהדר ליה רבי יוסי מדרבי חנינא סגן הכהנים? אמר ליה רב נחמן: רבי יוסי לאו אדעתיה, דהוא סבר רבי מאיר מדרבי חנינא סגן הכהנים קאמר ליה, ואמר ליה: אנא מדרבי יהושע קאמינא,
The Talmud returns to the issue under discussion: And if it enters your mind that R' Meir is saying that he derives his opinion from the statement of R' Yehoshua, why does R' Yosei respond to him from the statement of R' Ḥanina the deputy High Priest? Rav Naḥman said to him: R' Yosei did not have R' Meir’s reasoning in mind, as he did not understand R' Meir’s reasoning. As R' Yosei maintains that R' Meir is saying to him proof from the statement of R' Ḥanina the deputy High Priest, and R' Meir said to him: I am stating my proof from the statement of R' Yehoshua.
ואמר ליה: ואפילו לרבי יהושע נמי אינה היא המדה, דהא מודה רבי אליעזר ורבי יהושע ששורף זו בפני עצמה וזו בפני עצמה.
And R' Yosei said to R' Meir in response: And even according to R' Yehoshua, that is not the inference from which the halakha of burning pure and impure leavened teruma together can be learned, as R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua concede that one should burn this meat by itself and that meat by itself, as stated in the Mishnah. From an analysis of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, it is possible to reconstruct the original dispute.