Responsa for Bava Batra 17:3
איתיביה רב יימר בר שלמיא לרבא ולהסיע על קיצתם לא אהדר ליה רבא אמר רב פפא שפיר עבד דלא אהדר ליה מידי ה"מ היכא דליכא אדם חשוב אבל היכא דאיכא אדם חשוב לאו כל כמינייהו דמתנו
Our Rabbis taught: The collectors for charity are not required to give an account of the moneys entrusted to them for charity, nor the treasurers of the Sanctuary of the moneys given for holy purposes. There is no actual proof of this [in the Scriptures], but there is a hint of it in the words, They reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money, to give to them that did the work, for they dealt faithfully.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings XII, 16. According to Tosaf., this is not a proof, because the men of that generatlon were exceptionally righteous. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
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