Commentary for Temurah 16:30

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is because this appears similar to the case of a priest who assists in the threshing-floor.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To winnow or bind the sheaves. Now this is forbidden, for it looks as if the priest is helping in order to receive the reward of terumah. Similarly, if a priest sells an unblemished firstling to an Israelite at a lower price (and still more if he makes him a present of it) , it appears as if he does so in order to receive all the future firstlings born in the herd of the Israelite.');">²⁰</span>

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