Related%20passage for Yoma 17:2

מעשר ראשון ומעשר עני נמי לא המוציא מחבירו עליו הראיה אלא מעשר שני נפרשו ונסקו וניכלוהו בירושלם

because [of the principle that] the claimant must produce evidence;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The heave-offering of the tithe, like the terumah (v. Glos.) itself, was, on penalty of death through divine action, forbidden to be eaten by a non-priest. With regard to the poor man's tithe, the baker could say: If you want to assert legal claim thereto, you will have to prove that the 'am ha-arez, from whom I bought it, has failed to give tithe thereof before he sold it to me. Unless such proof was forthcoming, there was no legal claim on the part of the Levite on the non-Levite poor to its possession.');">⁵</span> but the second tithe, let then [the baker] separate, take it up to Jerusalem and eat it there! 'Ulla said: Because these parhedrin<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Paredroi-assessors, counsellors. The Mishnah J. reads paledroi. The Tosef. paredroi. These assessors had a bad reputation from their oppressive measures at the market places, over which, as commissioners, they had jurisdiction. So that, apart from the fact that the high priests, during the second Temple, were changed as often as these officials, the fact that they were dubbed paredroi indicates that there must have been more than one point of contact between these officials and the priests.');">⁶</span> were beating them all the twelve months<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Usually their office was of twelve months' duration. As the next line shows, these officials made full use of their twelve months' opportunity for abuse of power.');">⁷</span> and telling them 'sell cheap, sell cheap,' the Sages did not burden them [to set apart the second tithe and take it up to Jerusalem].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Sages preferred to give the baker haberim the benefit of the doubt that the 'amme ha-arez, as a rule, do give the tithe.');">⁸</span>

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