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כולן ידלקו, דברי רבי מאיר. וחכמים אומרים: יעלו באחד ומאתים. שהיה רבי מאיר אומר: כל שדרכו לימנות — מקדש. וחכמים אומרים: אינו מקדש אלא ששה דברים בלבד. רבי עקיבא אומר: שבעה.
they must all be burned; this is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: They are nullified in a mixture of one part forbidden food to 200 parts permitted food. As R' Meir would say: Any object that it is usual to count renders a mixture prohibited. In other words, objects that are counted and sold by the unit, rather than by weight or estimation, are considered of special importance, and so they cannot be nullified by any majority and therefore must be burned. But the Rabbis say: Only 6 objects are important enough that they cannot be nullified and therefore render their mixtures forbidden. R' Akiva says: There are 7 such objects.
אלו הן: אגוזי פרך, ורמוני בדן, וחביות סתומות, וחלפי תרדין, וקולחי כרוב, ודלעת יונית. ורבי עקיבא מוסיף אף ככרות של בעל הבית. הראוין לערלה — ערלה. לכלאי הכרם — כלאי הכרם.
They are as follows: Perekh nuts, high-quality nuts from a place called Perekh; Badan pomegranates, pomegranates from a place called Badan; sealed jugs of wine; shoots of beet; cabbage stalks; and Greek gourd. R' Akiva adds, as his 7th item, a homeowner’s loaves. Different prohibitions apply to these 7 items: Those that are fit for the prohibition of orla, fruit that grows in the first 3 years after a tree has been planted, i.e., the nuts and pomegranates, render the entire mixture orla. Those that are fit for the prohibition proscribing a mixture of food crops in a vineyard, i.e., the beets, cabbage, and gourd, render the entire mixture a mixture of food crops in a vineyard.
רבי יוחנן סבר: ״את שדרכו לימנות״ שנינו. וריש לקיש סבר: ״כל שדרכו לימנות״ שנינו.
And it was stated that amora’im disagreed about the precise wording of this Mishnah: R' Yoḥanan holds that we learned: That which it is usual to count, i.e., R' Meir’s stringent ruling is limited to objects that are sold exclusively by unit. And Reish Lakish holds that we learned: Any object that it is usual to count, i.e., even items that are only sometimes sold by unit are considered important and cannot be nullified.