ורב נחמן התם כדרב שמעיה דאמר רב שמעיה חזקה אין ב"ד של כהנים עומדים משם עד שיכלו כל מעות שבשופר
- There [the presumption may be justified] in agreement with the view of R'Shemaiah. For R'Shemaiah laid down: There is a legal presumption that no Beth din of priest who would rise from their session<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., from there'.');"><sup>24</sup></span> before all the money in the collecting box<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra n. 6.');"><sup>25</sup></span> had been spent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the purchase of the necessary sacrifices. Pes. 90b. The ruling in this case is consequently no proof that a similar presumption is justified where the mission is entrusted to an ordinary agent.');"><sup>26</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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