Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Tosefta for Temurah 25:52

והרי מעשר בכלל היה ולמה יצא לומר לך מה מעשר קרבן יחיד וקרבן מזבח ודבר שבא בחובה ודבר שאינו בשותפות אף כל קרבן יחיד וקרבן מזבח ודבר שבא בחובה

This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Baraitha just quoted.');"><sup>32</sup></span> is the opinion of R'Simeon and that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The MISHNAH:');"><sup>33</sup></span> is the opinion of the [Rabbis].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Another version has here the name of Rabbi, who will hold that the name of korban does not apply to dedications for Temple repairs. Our Mishnah will therefore be entirely the opinion of R. Simeon and the reason why dedications for Temple repairs do not effect exchange will not be because of the word korban but as R. Simeon explains subsequently in the MISHNAH:');"><sup>34</sup></span> According to R'Simeon, dedications for Temple repairs are called korban and according to the Rabbis they are not called korban. And are not [dedications for Temple repairs called it korban]? Surely it is written: And we have brought the Lord's korban [offering]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXI, 50. We see therefore that the word korban applies also to objects other than dedications for the altar.');"><sup>35</sup></span> - [Dedications for Temple repairs] are called the Lord's offering, but they are not called an offering for the Lord.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This would have implied an offering in the ordinary sense, i.e., a sacrifice for the altar.');"><sup>36</sup></span> Our Rabbis have taught: He shall not search whether it be good or bad.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev: XXVII, 33.');"><sup>37</sup></span> Now why is this mentioned?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The passage refers to animal tithe.');"><sup>38</sup></span> Has not Scripture already said: He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad or a bad for a good, etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXVII, 10, in connection with the law of exchange, thus implying that all dedications including animal tithe effect exchange.');"><sup>39</sup></span> ? Because it says: 'He shall not alter it nor change it', implying either a private offering or a congregational offering, either a dedication for the altar or a dedication for Temple repairs, and [that which is brought obligatorily].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All these effect exchange. Inserted with Sh. Mek.');"><sup>40</sup></span> [In order to avoid this interpretation] Scripture says: 'He shall not search'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reason therefore why the text again mentions the law of exchange in connection with animal tithe is in order to compare all other exchanges to animal tithe, as R. Simeon explains.');"><sup>41</sup></span> Said R'Simeon: Now was not tithe implied? And for what purpose was tithe specially mentioned? In order to teach you that just as tithe<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For which exchange is effected.');"><sup>42</sup></span> is a private offering, a dedication for the altar, something which comes obligatorily and something which does not come through a partnership, so all [animals exchanged] must be a private offering, a dedication for the altar, something which comes obligatorily

Tosefta Demai

One who purchases [produce] from the merchant and he (the merchant) says, "This is tithed" or "This is not tithed," [it is considered] certainly untithed; it is not tithed. One removes from it two tithes to exempt it from Terumah, as there is no Terumah after Terumah (i.e., once one designates a portion of certain produce as Terumah, one cannot designate any other portion of that produce as Terumah, see Tem. 13a:2).
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