Shabbos 89b: Contradictions?

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Shabbos 89b: Contradictions?
 
Marcello Trebitsch <marcellotrebit...@hotmail.com> asked

How the the gemorah asks whats seems to be contradictions in two gemorahs and 
then answers that no each one is talking about the same case. For example in 
shabbos 89b on the bottom and 90a on top; it seems to me that its obvious??? 
what does the gemora want to teach us?
 
Yair Trebitsch, Brooklyn NY
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The Kollel replies:
 
In the Sugya you mentioned, the Gemara at first assumes that the Mishnah means 
to say that *any* spices can join together to make a Shiur. It asks from 
Chizkiyah, who says that only certain ones join together. The Gemara answers 
that the Mishnah is indeed referring only to those special spices.
 
Rashi (top of 90a) explains that the Gemara assumed the Mishnah must be 
discussing any spice, since it did not specify any special spices. Thus, the 
Gemara is asking if we should assume that there is a Machlokes about this 
Halachah, or should we accept a "forced" reading of our Mishnah (that reads 
unwritten words into the Mishnah) in order to avoid making a Machlokes Tana'im. 
The Gemara prefers the second possibility, and that is the Chidush of the 
Gemara.
 
I hope this helps you.
 
Best wishes,
Mordecai Kornfeld


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