Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 111:9

אלא רבינא עד דמותיב מנחתום לסייע ליה מפלטר דתנן הלוקח מן הפלטר מעשר מן כל דפוס ודפוס דברי ר"מ

Again, R. Shesheth's refutation was not well grounded, for he [Samuel] referred to a law involving death, whilst R. Shesheth raised an objection from what is merely a negative injunction, for it is written, <i>Thou mayest not eat within thy gates [the tithe of thy corn</i> etc.].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 17. This is interpreted as referring to improperly redeemed tithes, such as with coins that may not be employed for the purpose, as appears in the discussion above. Now, whereas Samuel's assertion that the Rabbis enacted protective measures for their own enactments referred to a zar's eating the terumah of the tithe of demai, which, as already stated, involves death at the hands of Heaven, R. Shesheth objected to it on the grounds that in the case of redemption this is not so. But improper redemption is forbidden only by a negative injunction; therefore it is natural that a Rabbinical enactment in reference thereto should not be as strict as one In reference to the former law. ');">¹⁷</span> Yet the objection R. Shesheth does raise is well answered by R. Joseph. But as for Rabina, instead of raising an objection from a baker, let him support him from the case of a wholesale bread merchant. For we learnt: If one buys [bread] from a breadseller,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Dem. v, 4. An am-ha-aretz (v. p. 333, n. 1), who buys bread from various bakers, which he in turn retails. ');">¹⁸</span>

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