Terumos 4:9-10

Terumos 4:9

If there were fifty black figs and fifty white figs of non-terumah and a black fig of terumah fell in, the black ones are prohibited but the white ones are permitted. If a white fig of terumah fell in, the white ones are prohibited but the black ones are permitted. If we don’t know what fell in, all 100 figs combine to cancel out the terumah status of the fig that fell. Rabbi Eliezer rules more stringently in this matter (not allowing dissimilar items to combine) and Rabbi Yehoshua rules more leniently (permitting dissimilar items to combine even when we know what fell).

Terumos 4:10

In the following case, Rabbi Eliezer rules leniently and Rabbi Yehoshua rules stringently: if a person presses a litra (about 7 fluid ounces) of dried terumah figs into the rim of a jar (to press them into a cake) and he doesn’t know which jar, Rabbi Eliezer says that the figs in all the jars are treated as individual figs so that the figs in the jar can cancel the terumah status of those in the rim. Rabbi Yehoshua says that the figs in the rim don’t mix with those in the jar so the only way to cancel out the terumah status is if the jar is mixed up 1 in 100 jars.