Tosefta for Pesachim 111:9
אמר רבי אבהו התקינו שיהו אומרים אותו בקול רם מפני תרעומת המינין ובנהרדעא דליכא מינין עד השתא אמרי לה בחשאי:
just as there is only One in thy heart, so is there in our heart only One.' In that moment our father Jacob opened [his mouth] and exclaimed, 'Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever.' Said the Rabbis, How shall we act? Shall we recite it, - but our Teacher Moses did not say it.
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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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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