3,356. Terumah That Fell Into One of Two Vessels

Terumos 14:4

If a seah of terumah wheat falls on the ledge of a vat of secular wheat, we don’t calculate the mixture to 101 times the volume of the terumah; that’s only done when terumah gets mixed with secular produce or we don’t know where it fell. In a case such as this, we act as if the terumah was wheat placed above barley and we take whatever terumah fell unto the vat plus some of the secular produce that it fell on, the same as we would when taking wheat from barley.

Terumos 14:5

Let’s say that there were two baskets or two vats and terumah fell into one of them, mixing with secular produce, but we don’t know which into vessel it fell. If the two vats are in the same building, we treat them as if they were combined and the terumah is nullified if they cumulatively contain 101 times the terumah’s volume, like a single vat. Not only that, the vessels are treated as if combined even when they’re in two different buildings because they could be in the same building. If the two vessels are in two different cities, then they’re not treated as if combined.