אמר רב ששת מנא אמינא לה דתניא האומר לחבירו צא ולקט לך תאנים מתאנתי אוכל מהן עראי ומעשרן ודאי מלא לך כלכלה זה תאנים מתאנתי אוכל מהן עראי ומעשרן דמאי
R'Shesheth again said: Whence do I derive this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra n. 1.');"><sup>27</sup></span> From what was taught: If a man said to another, 'Go out and gather for yourself some figs<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. take an unspecified quantity'.');"><sup>28</sup></span> from my fig tree', the latter may make<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'eat'.');"><sup>29</sup></span> of them an irregular meal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And he is under no obligation to set apart the priestly and levitical dues. An occasional meal is exempt from such dues.');"><sup>30</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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