ואומר (איוב לט, יג) כנף רננים נעלסה נושא עולה ונתחטא
With regard to the smoothing of the pile of [corn belonging at the time to] a gentile there is a difference of opinion between Tannaim. For it was taught: One may give terumah from produce bought from an Israelite for other produce also bought from an Israelite, and from produce bought from a gentile for other produce also bought from a gentile, and from produce bought from a Cuthean for other produce also bought from a Cuthean, and from produce bought from any one of these for other produce also bought from any one of these. So R. Meir and R. Judah. But R. Jose and R. Simeon say, One may give terumah from produce bought from an Israelite for other produce also bought from an Israelite, and from produce bought from a gentile for other produce bought from a Cuthean, and from produce bought from a Cuthean for other produce bought from a gentile, but one may not give terumah from produce bought from an Israelite for other produce bought from a gentile or a Cuthean, nor from produce bought from a gentile or a Cuthean for other produce bought from an Israelite. <br>
Mishnah Demai
They may give tithes from produce from a Jew for produce [bought] from a Gentile, from produce [bought] from a Gentile for produce from a Jew, from produce [bought] from a Jew for produce [bought] from Samaritans, and from produce [bought] from Samaritans for produce [bought] from [other] Samaritans. Rabbi Eliezer prohibits [tithing] from produce [bought] from Samaritans for produce [bought] from [other] Samaritans.
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Tosefta Demai
We may tithe [certainly untithed produce] from a Jew on behalf of [produce bought from] a Samaritan [which is also certainly untithed]; and [certainly untithed produce] from a Samaritan on behalf of [certainly untithed produce bought from] a Jew (Dem. 5:9); and [following the same formula] from a Jew on behalf of a non-Jew; and of a non-Jew on behalf of a Jew, and of everyone on behalf of everyone else, the word of Rabbi Meir. [But] Rabbi Yehudah, and Rabbi Yosei, and Rabbi Shimon say, we may tithe [certainly untithed produce] from a Jew on behalf of [certainly untithed produce from] another Jew; from a Samaritan on behalf of another Samaritan, and from a Gentile on behalf of another Gentile; but not from a Jew on behalf of a Samaritan, and not from a Samaritan on behalf of a Jew, and not from a Gentile on behalf of a Jew, and not from a Jew on behalf of a Gentile. Said Rabbi Shimon Shezuri, it so happened that my untithed produce got mixed up [with tithed produce], and I came and aksed Rabbi Tarfon [what to do]. He told me, go and buy produce from the market and tithe it on behalf of them (i.e., the mixed-up produce). Rabbi Eliezer says (following Erfurt Manuscript), with respect to produce from a Samaritan, just as they (i.e., mixing them in with one's own produce) convert a Jew's produce into Demai according to the law of the majority, [so too] we do not take Terumah and tithes from one on the other, and thus we tithe a Samaritan's produce according to the laws of Demai, and we do not tithe one on behalf of the other (i.e., a Samaritan's produce on behalf of a Jew's produce, or vice-versa).
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