Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 15:12

לא קשיא כאן למלכי ישראל כאן למלכי אומות העולם

But on the view of R'Eleazar and R'Simeon, the clauses should be reversed, thus: 'The rams mount the sheep', to wit, at the time when the ears of corn 'shout for joy and sing', but there are some which do so [already] 'when the valleys are covered with corn'? - The fact is, said Raba, that all authorities hold that the rams mount the sheep at the time when the valleys are covered with corn, which is in Adar, but where they differ is in the exposition of the following text, viz. , Thou shalt surely tithe,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'tithing thou shalt tithe', Deut., XIV, 22.');">⁸</span> [in regard to which we have learnt that] the Scripture speaks of two tithes, the tithe of cattle the tithe of corn.

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