Commentary for Bava Batra 161:10

א"ל ר"ש בן אליקים לר' אלעזר

Hence it may be inferred from this [superfluous Mishnah] that R. Meir subjects to the obligation even him who buys fruit in the market.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Meir thus said to the Rabbis: Even according to your opinion that the purchase of two trees does not give title to the ground, one must nevertheless bring and recite, for the possession of land is not indispensable for the bikkurim recital. ');">¹⁷</span> But is it not written: <i>Which thou shalt bring in from thy land?</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVI, 2. Accordingly, if he has no land of his own, he is not subject to the law of bringing and reciting; how then can A. Meir subject such a case to this law? ');">¹⁸</span> — This is to exclude [the fruit grown] in Foreign Territory.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. [H] lit., 'outside the land', viz., all countries outside Palestine. ');">¹⁹</span> But is it not written: [<i>The choicest first fruit of] thy land</i> [<i>thou shalt bring</i>]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIII, 19; XXXIV, 26. ');">²⁰</span> — [This is] to exclude the land of a heathen.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., land in Palestine belonging to a non Jew farmed out to a Jew. ');">²¹</span> But is it not written: <i>The first fruits of [the land] which thou&nbsp;… hast given me?</i> — [This means: The fruits] for which thou hast given me money with which to buy [them]. Raba raised an objection: [It has been taught]: He who buys a tree in another man's [field] brings [the first ripe fruit] but does not recite [the declaration], because he has not acquired ownership of the ground,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 238, n. 10. ');">²²</span> [these are] the words of R. Meir.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This statement of R. Meir is in direct contradiction to that made in his name by Samuel as reported by Rab Judah. ');">²³</span> — This is, indeed, a refutation. R. Simeon b. Eliakim said to R. Eleazar:

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