Allusion for Shabbat 45:11

ומנא תימרא דחיישינן לחשד דתניא אמר רבי שמעון בשביל ארבעה דברים אמרה תורה להניח פיאה בסוף שדהו מפני גזל עניים ומפני ביטול עניים ומפני החשד ומשום (ויקרא יט, ט) בל תכלה מפני גזל עניים שלא יראה בעל הבית שעה פנוייה ויאמר לקרובו עני הרי זו פאה

Whose suspicion? Shall we say, that of strangers:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., the world'-i.e., a stranger passing through the town may be unaware that a lamp is burning at another door. ');">³⁷</span> then let it be necessary even on the same side?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a stranger may think that the courtyard fronts two separate houses. ');">³⁸</span> Whilst if the suspicion of townspeople, then even [if] on two different sides it is still unnecessary?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They know that both belong to the same house. ');">³⁹</span> — After all, it is on account of the suspicion of the townspeople, yet perchance they may pass one [door] and not the other, and say, 'just as it [the lamp] has not been lit at this door, so has it not been lit at the other.' And whence do you know<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'say'. ');">⁴⁰</span> that we pay regard to suspicions? Because it was taught, R. Simeon said: On account of four considerations the Torah ordered <i>pe'ah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. ');">⁴¹</span> to be left at the end of the field:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Instead of enacting that a certain portion of the field be left for the poor, its situation to be at the owner's discretion. ');">⁴²</span> [as a precaution] against the robbing of the poor, against wasting the time of the poor, against suspicion, and against [transgressing], thou shalt not finish off [the corners of thy field].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIX, 9. 'Thou shalt not finish off' implies at the end of the field, where the harvesting is completed. ');">⁴³</span> [As a precaution] against the robbing of the poor: lest the owner see a free hour<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When no poor are about in the field. ');">⁴⁴</span> and say to his poor relations, 'This is <i>pe'ah</i>;'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But now the poor will know when the end of the field is likely to be reached. ');">⁴⁵</span>

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