ורב נחמן התם כדרב שמעיה דאמר רב שמעיה חזקה אין ב"ד של כהנים עומדים משם עד שיכלו כל מעות שבשופר
- There [the presumption may be justified] in agreement with the view of R'Shemaiah. For R'Shemaiah laid down: There is a legal presumption that no Beth din of priest who would rise from their session<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., from there'.');"><sup>24</sup></span> before all the money in the collecting box<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra n. 6.');"><sup>25</sup></span> had been spent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the purchase of the necessary sacrifices. Pes. 90b. The ruling in this case is consequently no proof that a similar presumption is justified where the mission is entrusted to an ordinary agent.');"><sup>26</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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