Commentary for Chullin 262:6
אחריך זה שכחה
'And even from the poorest in Israel they are exacted' - for it is written: Neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: this is an admonition to a poor man [who himself owns a field] in regard to his own [gleanings].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Hebrew of the verse: Lev. XXIII, 22, 'for the poor' follows immediately upon the command to leave the gleanings, and the interpretation is, that it is for the poor, too' to leave the gleanings.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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