Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Tosefta for Bava Batra 246:10

בקדשים קלים ואליבא דרבי יוסי הגלילי דאמר ממון בעלים הוא דתניא (ויקרא ה, כא) ומעלה מעל בה' לרבות קדשים קלים שהן ממון בעלים דברי רבי יוסי הגלילי

and [the Tanna] holds that the [priestly] gifts are regarded as [already] given,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'lifted' 'separated'. ');"><sup>27</sup></span> [even though] they have not [actually] been given.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence, the gifts are regarded as having been in the actual possession of the deceased, and the firstborn is, therefore, entitled to a double portion. ');"><sup>28</sup></span> 'Consecrated things' [surely], are not his!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Consecrated objects such, e.g., as sin, or guilt offerings, are devoted to the Lord, not to the priest; why' then, should the firstborn be entitled to a double portion in that which did not belong personally to his father? ');"><sup>29</sup></span>

Tosefta Terumot

Associates of the priesthood and of the Levites (those with an arrangement with a specific Kohen or Levite to give him their priestly or Levitical gifts, see Tosafot to Bava Batra 123b:8) are not authorized to do this; however, [with respect to] lost items, it is permitted because he is like one who returns a lost object [to its owner].
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