Related%20passage for Sanhedrin 224:15

ולפרקיה דא"ר אלעזר מניין למעשר שני שנטמא שפודין אותו אפילו בירושלים ת"ל (דברים יד, כד) לא תוכל שאתו ואין שאת אלא אכילה שנאמר (בראשית מג, לד) וישא משאת מאת פניו הכא במאי עסקינן בלקוח

Hence it must surely refer to the provinces, yet it is stated, THEY MUST BE HIDDEN?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus proving that the second tithe in the provinces is treated as secular property. ');">²⁸</span> — No. In truth, it is of another city and brought thither [to Jerusalem]; but we deal with a case where it became defiled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case it may not be eaten; consequently it must be hidden. ');">²⁹</span> Then should it not be redeemed? For R. Eleazar said: Whence do we know that if the second tithe became defiled it can be redeemed even in Jerusalem? From the verse, When thou art not able to bear it [then thou shalt turn it into money].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XIV, 25. ');">³⁰</span> Now se'eth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] (E.V. 'to bear'). ');">³¹</span> can only refer to eating, as&nbsp;… And he took and sent mase'oth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H]. ');">³²</span> [messes] unto them from before him?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XLIII, 34. Thus he translates the first verse: If thou art not able to eat it — being defiled — then thou shalt turn it into money — i.e., redeem it. ');">³³</span> — We deal with purchased [commodities].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The original second tithe having been redeemed, the money was expended upon commodities, which in turn became defiled. At this stage it assumed that only the original second tithe can be redeemed if defiled, but not that purchased with the redemption money. ');">³⁴</span>

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