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וכי יש לו רשות לבעה"ב לתרום תרומת מעשר אין אבא אלעזר בן גמלא היא דתניא אבא אלעזר בן גמלא אומר (במדבר יח, כז) ונחשב לכם תרומתכם

as in the incident of the small field of Abaye.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Keth. 91b. A man who owed a hundred zuz left a field worth fifty. The creditor seized it and the heirs induced him to quit it by paying fifty. He again seized it and they again paid. So here, he recovers again and again. ');">¹²</span> Our Rabbis have taught: If an Israelite says to a Levite, 'I have set aside a tithe for you.' he need not be concerned about the priest's due in the tithe.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Num. XVIII, 26, according to which the Levite had himself to set aside a tithe from his own tithe for the priest. ');">¹³</span> If, however, he said, 'I have set aside a <i>kor</i> as tithe for you,' he has to concern himself about the priest's due in the tithe. What does all this mean? — Abaye said: It means this. If an Israelite said to a Levite, 'I have set aside tithe for you, and here is money for it', he has no need to worry lest the Levite should have made<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [As soon as he had made it over to the owner, before he actually received the money.] ');">¹⁴</span> that produce the priestly due on produce received by him from elsewhere.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because it was not yet specified. ');">¹⁵</span> If, however, he said, 'I have set aside a <i>kor</i> of tithe for you and here is the money for it', he has to worry lest the Levite should have [already] made it the priestly due on tithe from elsewhere.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because it is specific. ');">¹⁶</span> Are we then dealing with rogues who take money and make it [the produce] priestly due on tithe from elsewhere?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Before they receive the money. and so prevent the Israelite from using it. V. Tosaf. s.v. [H] ');">¹⁷</span> — In fact, said R. Mesharsheya the son of R. Idi, [the Baraitha] means this: If the Israelite said to the son of a [deceased] Levite, I have set aside tithe for your father and here is the money for it, he need not worry lest the father had made it priestly due on tithe from elsewhere. If, however, he said, I have set aside a <i>kor</i> of tithe for your father and here is the money, he has to worry lest the father had made it priestly due on tithe from elsewhere.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After learning that the kor had been set aside for him. ');">¹⁸</span> Can we than suspect Haberim<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos., s.v. Haber. All Levites were presumed to be Haberim. ');">¹⁹</span> of setting aside the priestly due from produce in another place?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'from that which is not brought near'. It was forbidden to a Haber to say. 'The produce which I have in such-and-such a place shall be terumah for this before me, for fear that produce is not extant at the time. ');">²⁰</span> — In fact, said R. Ashi, it means this: If a son of a [deceased] Israelite says to a Levite, My father told me [before his death] that he had set aside tithe for you or for your father, he [the Levite] has to worry about the priest's due in it, since as [the quantity is] indefinite, the owner's father may not have made it available for ordinary use [by setting aside the priestly due in it]. If, however, he says, I have a <i>kor</i> of tithe set aside for you or for your father, there is no need to worry lest the priestly due is still contained in it, since as [the quantity] is definite, he may be sure that the owner made it right [before his death]. But has the owner the right to set aside the <i>terumah</i> from the Levite's tithe? — Yes. Such is the ruling of Abba Eleazar b. Gamala, as it has been taught: Abba Eleazar b. Gamala says. It is written, And your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XVIII, 27. ');">²¹</span>

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