שמערבין לגדול ביום הכפורים
that an 'erub may be prepared for an adult in connection with the Day of Atonement'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though the adult is forbidden to consume any food on that day the 'erub is valid because a minor who is free from the observance of the commandments, could well eat it even on that day.');"><sup>1</sup></span> 'Indeed [we do]', the others replied.' As', the former said to them, 'an 'erub may be prepared for an adult in connection with the Day of Atonement, so may an 'erub be prepared for a nazirite with wine or for an Israelite with terumah'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' While the nazirite and the Israelite respectively are forbidden to consume such 'erubs, non-nazirites and priests respectively are not forbidden and may well consume them.');"><sup>2</sup></span> And Beth Shammai?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How can they maintain their view against this argument?');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Tosefta Maasrot
[If the owner of a field] said to him, "Go out and gather figs for yourself from the fig tree," he may eat casually from them and tithe them as certainly untithed produce. [If he] said to him, "Go out and fill yourself up this basket," he may eat from them casually and tithe them as Demai. In what case does this apply? With [a field belonging to] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he may eat and there is no need to tithe, the words of Rebbi. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, In what case does this apply? With [the field of] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he should not eat until he has tithed, since chaverim are not be suspected of taking Terumah [on behalf of other produce] that is not in close by (and thus we can be certain that the chaver-owner would not have already tithed these figs (see Ter. 4:3)). Said Rebbi (not "Rabbi Yehuda"), my words are preferable to the words of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel. It is better that chaverim will take Terumah [from produce] that is not close by and not feed untithed produce to amei ha'aretz.
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