We learn from Steinsaltz that wine presses were constructed one atop another. They were carved from rock and connected so that the grapes could be pressed above and the juice would flow below. The rabbis consider what should be done when the wine is not ritually pure. Teruma wine is permitted to the priests only. If it has become ritually impure, it cannot be consumed by anyone.
The rabbis teach that when a barrel of teruma wine breaks and spills into the upper wine chamber while the lower level contains teruma wine, is the teruma wine wasted? Some of the considerations:
- is there enough wine in the lower chamber to nullify the teruma wine?
- has even a revi'it, a small amount, been saved by using ritually pure vessels to draw the teruma wine from the upper chamber?
- are no pure vessels available?
- is it possible to save the ordinary wine in the lower chamber or is this a form of defilement of teruma?
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