Mishnayos Terumos Perek 8 Mishnah 11
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תרומות פרק ח׳ משנה י"א
Concerning both cases Rabbi Joshua said: This is not the kind of terumah over which I am cautioned lest I defile it, but rather to eat of it and not to defile it. If one was passing from place to place with loaves of terumah in his hand and a Gentile said to him: “Give me one of these and I will make it unclean; for if not, I will defile them all,” let him defile them all, and not give him deliberately one to defile, the words of Rabbi Eliezer. But Rabbi Joshua says: he should place one of them on a rock.
וְעַל זוֹ וְעַל זוֹ אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, לֹא זוֹ הִיא תְרוּמָה שֶׁאֲנִי מֻזְהָר עָלֶיהָ מִלְּטַמְּאָהּ, אֶלָּא מִלְּאָכְלָהּ. וּבַל תְּטַמְּאָהּ כֵּיצַד, הָיָה עוֹבֵר מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם וְכִכָּרוֹת שֶׁל תְּרוּמָה בְיָדוֹ, אָמַר לוֹ נָכְרִי, תֶּן לִי אַחַת מֵהֶן וַאֲטַמְּאָהּ, וְאִם לָאו, הֲרֵי אֲנִי מְטַמֵּא אֶת כֻּלָּהּ, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, יְטַמֵּא אֶת כֻּלָּהּ, וְאַל יִתֶּן לוֹ אַחַת מֵהֶן וִיטַמֵּא. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, יַנִּיחַ לְפָנָיו אַחַת מֵהֶן עַל הַסָּלַע:
Bartenura
על זו ועל זו. על זו שנולד לה ספק טומאה, ועל זו שהולכת לאבוד, אמר רבי יהושע שאינו מוזהר על טומאתן, ואותה שמוזהר עליה בל תטמא כיצד, היה עובר וכו׳ דקאמר רבי יהושע יניח לפניו אחת על הסלע כדי שלא יגרום טומאה לאחרות, ואף אותה אחת יניח על הסלע ולא יתננה בידו, שלא יטמאנה בידים. והלכה כרבי יהושע:
ועל זו ועל זו – on that which a doubt of ritual impurity resulted, and on this that is getting lost, Rabbi Yehoshua stated he is not warned on their ritual defilement, and that which is is warned about, lest it become defiled, how so? He was passing [from place to place with loaves of heave-offering in his hand when a heathen approaches him who says to him – give him one of them so that he can defile it and if not he would defile all of them], Rabbi Yehoshua stated, he should leave one of them on the rock in order that he doesn’t cause ritual defilement to the others. Ans even that one, he should leave on the rock and not give it to him in his hand, so that he would not defile the hands. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehoshua.