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סוכה 23:2
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
but when it dies, it shrinks, and this might not enter his mind. But did Abaye say that R. Meir takes the possibility of death into consideration while R. Judah disregards it? Have we not in fact learnt: If the daughter of an Israelite was married to a priest, and her husband went to a country beyond the sea, she may eat of terumah on the presumption that he is still alive. And when we pointed to the following contradiction: [If a priest said to his wife,] ‘Here is thy bill of divorce [to take effect] one hour before my death’, she is forbidden to eat of terumah forthwith, Abaye answered that there is no difficulty, since the former [statement] is according to R. Meir who disregards the possibility of death, while the latter is according to R. Judah who regards the possibility of death, as it has been taught, If a man buys wine from Cutheans he may say, ‘Two log which I intend to set aside are terumah, ten are the first tithe, and nine the second tithe’, and then he redeems it and may drink it at once. So R. Meir
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