Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 220:7

בעי רבא כהנים בגזל הגר יורשין הוו או מקבלי מתנות הוו

whereas if you maintain that they are recipients of endowments, the Divine Law surely ordered the giving of an endowment, and in this case nothing would be given them since the leaven is considered [in the eye of the law] as being mere ashes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Tem. VII, 5. ');">⁹</span> R. Ze'ira put the question thus: Even if you maintain that they are recipients of endowments, then still no question arises, since it is this endowment [originally due to the proselyte] which the Divine Law has enjoined to be bestowed upon them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The priests could thus never be in a better position then the proselyte himself. ');">¹⁰</span>

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