והרחוקים מותרים מחצות היום ואילך והא חדש דאורייתא הוא וקתני הרחוקים מותרין מחצות היום ואילך לאו משום חזקה שליח עושה שליחותו
Is not this due to the legal presumption that an agent carries out his mission?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Obviously it is. The priests being the agents of the people are presumed to have attended to their duty and to have done it before half of the day had passed.');"><sup>6</sup></span> And R'Nahman?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, in view of the ruling cited, can he maintain that in respect of a Pentateuchal law there is no legal presumption that all agent carries out his mission?');"><sup>7</sup></span> - There [the presumption is justified] for the reason stated:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'as it was taught'.');"><sup>8</sup></span> Because it is known that Beth din would not shirk their duty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'be lazy about it'. This, therefore, is no proof that legal presumption is justified in the case of an ordinary agent.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Maasrot
“ ‘Go and collect for yourself 20 figs from my tree’, he eats as usual and is free. ‘Go and fill a basket,’ he should not eat before tithing. When has this been said? About a vulgar. But from a Fellow he can eat and does not have to tithe, the words of Rebbi. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, when has this been said? About a vulgar. But from a Fellow he has to put it in order as certainly untithed since Fellows are not suspected to tithe what is not earmarked. Rebbi said, I prefer my words to those of Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel. It is preferable that they should tithe what is not earmarked than to feed ṭevel to the vulgar.” Rebbi Zeїra said, from both their opinions [it follows that] even a Fellow who sends to another Fellow must tithe. They ventured to say, he who said that Fellows are not suspected to tithe what is not earmarked, when somebody is a Fellow he has to tithe. And he who said, it is better to tithe what is not earmarked than to feed ṭevel to the vulgar, if he is a Fellow he has to tithe. Rebbi Jonah asked: Here you declare him to be a Fellow, there you declare him to be a vulgar. Rebbi Yose said, in both cases, he is a vulgar. But because of the rare one who puts in order he is called a Fellow.
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