Tosefta for Pesachim 111:11
אמר לו רבי יהודה אם ברצון חכמים היו עושין יהו כל אדם עושין כן אלא אלו ואלו שלא ברצון חכמים היו עושין על שלשה מיחו בידם ועל שלשה לא מיחו בידם
So her servants began bringing it to her in secret. R'Abbahu said: They [the Sages] enacted that this should be recited aloud, on account of the resentment of heretics.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. min, sectarian. They might think that the Jews were cursing them.');"><sup>24</sup></span> But in Nehardea, where there are no heretics so far, they recite it quietly. Our Rabbis taught: Six things the inhabitants of Jericho did, three with the consent of the Sages, and three without the consent of the Sages.
Tosefta Pesachim
Six things the people of Jericho did -- three according to the will of the Sages and three against the will of the Sages. They grafted palm trees on the entire day of Passover Eve (i.e., the fourteenth of Nissan), and they "bundled" the Shema, and they harvested [grain] before the Omer according to the will of the Sages. And these are [what they did] against the will of the Sages: They permitted [the people to make use of] small branches of [trees that had been] dedicated [to the Temple], they ate fallen fruit on the Sabbath, and they gave Peah (the corners of the field left aside for the poor) from vegetables. Said Rabbi Yehuda, if it was according to the will of the Sages, then everyone would act in this way. [Rather, it should be said that] as three, the Sages reprimanded them, and as to the other three, the Sages did not reprimand them. And these [are the three things as to which the Sages] reprimanded them: They grafted palm trees on the entire day of Passover Eve, and they "bundled" the Shema, and they harvest and piled [grain] before the Omer, and they did not reprimand them. These are what [the Sages] reprimanded them for: They permitted [the use of] small branches of dedicated [trees], and they ate fallen fruit on the Sabbath, and they gave Peah from vegetables.
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