Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 108:3

גבי תרומה כתיב (ויקרא כב, יד) איש כי יאכל קדש בשגגה ויסף חמישיתו עליו ותנן האוכל תרומה בשוגג משלם קרן וחומש אחד האוכל ואחד השותה ואחד הסך אחד תרומה טהורה ואחד תרומה טמאה משלם חומשה וחומשא דחומשא ואילו גבי מעשר לא מכתב כתיב ולא מיתנא תנא ולא איבעויי איבעיא לן

With respect to <i>terumah</i>, it is written, <i>And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto it</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXII, 14. Here the Heb. reads [H], sing.; nevertheless it is shewn further on that there is a Biblical allusion that there may be many fifths, as in the case of robbery. ');">⁷</span> And we learnt: If one eats <i>terumah</i> unwittingly, he must restore the principal and a fifth; whether he eats, drinks or anoints [therewith]; whether it was undefiled or defiled <i>terumah</i>, he must pay a fifth and a fifth of the fifth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This fifth becomes the same as the original terumah, and if he ate it, he must restore that fifth and a fifth thereof, just as in the case of robbery (Ter. VI, 4). ');">⁸</span> With respect to [the second] tithe it is neither written<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is no allusion to the payment of many fifths. ');">⁹</span>

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