Related%20passage for Rosh Hashanah 29:9

א"ל יד הכל ממשמשין בה ואת אמרת תיחייב במעשר

Said Abaye to him: Your second clause is unobjectionable, because [you can say that] you take the more stringent view.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the view which is more stringent in this case, viz., that we go by the blossoming and not by the plucking. And since we do this for tnkac purposes of clearance, we also do it for purposes of tithes, although this means taking the more lenient view. (V. Tosaf s.v.) .');">¹²</span> But your first clause [surely involves a contradiction]?

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