Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 42:11

ת"ש מאימתי כל אדם מותרים בלקט משילכו בה הנמושות ואמרינן מאי נמושות וא"ר יוחנן סבי דאזלי אתיגרא ריש לקיש אמר לקוטי בתר לקוטי

while Resh Lakish answered: The last in the succession of gleaners.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that no other poor can hope to find any more gleanings. ');">¹⁶</span> Now why should this be so? Granted that the local poor give up hope [of finding any gleanings].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the local poor see the aged and feeble, or the successive groups, glean in the field, they come to the conclusion that there would be nothing more left to glean, and they 'give up hope'. ');">¹⁷</span>

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