Mishnah 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. ');"><sup>16</sup></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'. ');"><sup>17</sup></span>
Mishnah Peah
From when are all people permitted to take gleanings, [forgotten sheaves and peah]? After the old ones of the poor have gone. And in the case of peret and defective clusters? After the poor have gone into the vineyard and come back again. And in the case of the olive trees? After the descent of the second rainfall. Rabbi Judah said: But aren’t there those who do not harvest their olives until after the second rainfall?” Rather, once the poor man has gone out [to gather the agricultural gifts taken from olive trees] and cannot bring back with him [more than the value of] four issars.
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