אמר ר' אסי אמר ר' יוחנן מעשר שני מאימתי חייבין עליו משראה פני החומה מ"ט דאמר קרא (דברים יב, יח) לפני ה' אלהיך תאכלנו (שנה בשנה) וכתיב (דברים יב, יז) (כי) לא תוכל לאכול בשעריך כל היכא דקרינן ביה לפני ה' אלהיך תאכלנו קרינן ביה לא תוכל לאכול בשעריך וכל היכא דלא קרינן ביה לפני ה' אלהיך תאכלנו לא קרינן ביה לא תוכל לאכול בשעריך
Rebbi Assi said in the name of Rebbi Yochanon From when does one become liable [for eating unredeemed] maaser sheni]? From when it sees the face of the wall. What is the reason? That the Torah says (Deuteronomy 12,18) "Before Hashem your God you should eat" And it's written, (Deuteronomy 12,17) "You may not proceed to eat in your gates", we derive that anywhere where we can read "Before Hashem your God you should eat" [i.e. where it entered Jerusalem] we also read "You may not proceed to eat in your gates" and anywhere where we can not read "Before Hashem your God you should eat" [i.e. where it never entered Jerusalem] we also do not read "You may not proceed to eat in your gates".
Rashi on Makkot
This is how we read it: And as for where one is scripturally warned against it's consumption, to not eat from it in tumah, I do not know. The Torah says, "Do not proceed etc.": This is the wording found in the sifre. Ans when it was established here, there was not [time given] to complete it before the Gemara asked, "Why bodily tumah is explicitly written! 'And he may not eat from any holy until he washes etc.'" And we establish in Yevamos that this is referring to maaser from what is written "for if he washed" which would imply that if he did wash he would be tahor, that he immersed, ascended and eats maaser [sheni]. (Our Master, his body was tahor, and his soul exited in a state of tahora. He did not explain any further. From here and on is the words of his disciple Rebbi Yehuda bar Nassan.) This is the wording of the baraisa, to say, "I do not know where one is scriptually warned", therefore the Torah teaches us, "he may not proceed etc.", and the Gemarah was not quiet yet in finishing the matter, rather it proceeded and asked why does it say "I do not know"? Why, bodily tumah is explicitly written in the Torah, "the soul that touched it. etc. may not eat from the holy unless he washed his flesh in water", and we say in Yevamos, that this verse was said regarding maaser sheni, that he immersed, ascended and eats etc.
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