Reference for Gittin 23:1

דלמא לא היא עד כאן לא קאמר ר' אליעזר התם אלא דמיגו דאי בעי מפקר להו לנכסיה והוי עני וחזי ליה ומיגו דזכי ליה לנפשיה זכי לחבריה אבל הכא לא

Perhaps the two cases are not on all fours. R. Eliezer's reason there [for allowing the owner of the field to acquire on behalf of the poor man] may be only because if he desires he can declare his field public property and so become himself a poor man and entitled to [the gleanings], and since he can acquire it for himself [we concede that] he can acquire it for his fellow; whereas [this reasoning] does not apply to our present case. And the Rabbis' reason in the case of the poor man may be only that in the text it is written thou shalt not glean, for the poor man,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIII, 22. [They join 'for the poor man' with 'Thou shalt not gleam on the principle of Siddur she-nehelak, mentioned in the Mishnah of H. Eliezer b. Jose the Galilean, that a context which has been disrupted by a disjunctive accent is reconnected for exegetical purposes.] ');">¹</span>

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