Commentary for Bava Metzia 184:15

מאי לאו אידי ואידי במעלה להן מזונות ובהא קא מיפלגי דמר סבר משלו הוא אוכל ומר סבר משל שמים הוא אוכל לא דכ"ע משלו הוא אוכל ולא קשיא כאן בשאין מעלה להן מזונות וברייתא במעלה להן מזונות

Now should you say, He eats of Heaven's [gift], why must he tithe and let them eat: surely the All-Merciful conferred no privilege upon him in respect of what is forbidden! And should you reply, Here too it is because [otherwise] it looks like an erroneous bargain, [I can rejoin,] now as for the breaking of his fig-cakes, it is well, since it does look like an erroneous bargain; but if his barrels burst, where is the erroneous bargain? Surely he [the labourer] knew that they were <i>tebel</i> in respect of tithes! — R. Shesheth replied: It means that his barrels burst open into the tank.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which wine is stored, so that the labourer might have thought that it had not been barrelled yet. ');">¹⁵</span>

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