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Dough made from 5-quarters of a log of flour and a bit more obligates one to separate ḥalla? The Talmud answers that this is what Rav is saying: A kav from Melogna is the same measure as this, as it is not a regular kav but a larger measure, identical to the amount from which one is required to se
Rav Yosef said: These women of our family ordinarily bake kefiza by kefiza, i.e., 3/4ths of a log at a time, on Passover, since it is easier to prevent small quantities of dough from becoming leavened. Abaye said to him: What is your opinion? Do you tell them to do this in order to be stringent?
Rav Yosef said to him: They do separate ḥalla from the dough, in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer. As it was taught in a baraita that R' Eliezer says: One who removes loaves of bread from an oven and places them in a basket, the basket combines them to reach the quantity from which one is r
Abaye said to him: But wasn’t it stated with regard to that baraita that R' Yehoshua ben Levi said: They taught that a basket combines the loaves only with regard to Babylonian loaves that bite from one another. In other words, the loaves are slightly attached, and when one separates them, a bit fr
In light of this discussion, R' Yirmeya raised a dilemma: With regard to a board without a rim [levizbezin], what is the halakha? Is it considered to be a vessel that combines loaves baked separately into one unit with regard to ḥalla? Do we require the inside of the vessel in order to combine the