Zevachim 72B

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ידלקו. נתערבו באחרים (ואחרים באחרים) ⁠– כולן ידלקו. דברי רבי מאיר. וחכמים אומרים: יעלו באחד ומאתים.

those bundles must be burned. If the bundles were intermingled with others, and those others were intermingled with others, they all must be burned. This is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: They can be nullified when the total is 201 items, i.e., one prohibited item intermingled with 200 permitted ones.

שהיה רבי מאיר אומר: כל שדרכו למנות ⁠– מקדש. וחכמים אומרים: אינו מקדש אלא ששה דברים בלבד. רבי עקיבא אומר: שבעה, ואלו הן: אגוזי פרך, ורימוני באדן, וחביות סתומות, וחילפי תרדין, וקילחי כרוב, ודלעת יונית. רבי עקיבא מוסיף: אף ככרות של בעל הבית.

The Mishnah continues: R' Meir holds that they all must be burned, as R' Meir would say: Any item whose manner is to be counted renders its mixture prohibited, as it is considered significant and cannot be nullified. And the Rabbis say: Only 6 items are sufficiently significant to render their mixture prohibited. R' Akiva says: There are 7. And they are: Nuts with brittle shells, and pomegranates from Badan, and sealed jugs of wine, and beet greens, and cabbage stalks, and Greek gourd. R' Akiva adds: Loaves of a homeowner are also in this category.

הראוי לערלה ⁠– ערלה, הראוי לכלאי הכרם ⁠– כלאי הכרם.

The Mishnah continues: Different prohibitions apply to these items. That which is fit to be forbidden due to the prohibition against eating the fruit of a tree during the first 3 years after its planting [orla], i.e., nuts, pomegranates, and sealed jugs of wine, prohibit their mixture as orla. That which is fit to be forbidden due to diverse kinds planted in a vineyard, i.e., beets, cabbage, and gourd, prohibit their mixture as diverse kinds in a vineyard.

ואיתמר עלה, רבי יוחנן אמר: ״את שדרכו למנות״ שנינו, רבי שמעון בן לקיש אומר: ״כל שדרכו למנות״ שנינו.

And it was stated that there is a dispute between amora’im with regard to the wording of R' Meir’s opinion in this Mishnah. R' Yoḥanan says that we learned: Only an item whose manner is exclusively to be counted is significant and cannot be nullified, and it therefore renders its mixture prohibited according to the opinion of R' Meir. And R' Shimon ben Lakish says that we learned: Any item whose manner is also to be counted is significant and cannot be nullified.

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