Yerushalmi Sotah 9:14 ירושלמי סוטה ט׳:י״ד

MISHNAH: Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says in the name of Rebbi Joshua: Since the day the Temple was destroyed there is no day without a curse, and the dew did not descend for a blessing; and the taste of fruits disappeared. Rebbi Yose says, also the fat of fruits disappeared.
Rebbi Simeon ben Eleazar says, purity²³⁰Meaning: lack of purity, the fact that people eat their profane food not under the rules of ritual purity applying to sanctified food, the original distinguishing feature of the old pharisaic sect. took away taste, tithes²³¹The fact that people did not tithe but mostly only gave heave; cf. Tractate Demay. took away the fat of grain, immorality and sorcery killed everything²³²Moral, not ritual, defects account for all other troubles. The Babylonian Mishnah essentially is the Tosephta, cf. Note 236..

HALAKHAH: It is written²³³Ps. 7:12.: “But God is angry every day.” Rebbi Ze‘ira said, the earlier ones²³⁴The troubles are cumulative; the new troubles do not eliminate the old ones. all continue. What can do away with them²³⁵The earlier troubles?? Rebbi Abin in the name of Rebbi Aḥa: The priestly blessing does away with them. ²³⁶Tosephta 15:2; there the text of the Mishnah also is repeated. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel said, you can observe that dew has become cursed. In earlier times, a village abundant in dew was abundant in produce but today, a village abundant in dew is poor in produce²³⁷Cf. Peah 7:4, Notes 66 ff.! In earlier times, dew descended on chaff and straw and whitened it²³⁸In the Tosephta, his proof is from the manna which was made shiny by the dew on it., but today it descends on chaff and straw and blackens it.

It was stated²³⁹Text of the Babylonian Mishnah. In Tosephta 15:2: “tithes took away oils and grain.”: “Rebbi Simeon ben Eleazar says, purity²³⁰Meaning: lack of purity, the fact that people eat their profane food not under the rules of ritual purity applying to sanctified food, the original distinguishing feature of the old pharisaic sect. took away taste and smell, tithes²³¹The fact that people did not tithe but mostly only gave heave; cf. Tractate Demay. took away the fat of grain.” From what was taken most? Rebbi Levi ben Ḥaita said, let us hear from the following²⁴⁰Ḥag. 2:16. Grain shrank from 1 to .5 but wine from 1 to .4, which is 20% less.: “One thought to come to a heap of twenty and it was ten. He came to the winepress to draw 50 pitchers,” it does not say ‘and there were 25’ but “and there were 20.” “²⁴¹This is the version of the Babylonian Mishnah. But the Sages say, immorality and sorcery killed everything²³²Moral, not ritual, defects account for all other troubles. The Babylonian Mishnah essentially is the Tosephta, cf. Note 236..”