יא ואין ספק מוציא מידי ודאי והתניא אמר ר' יהודה מעשה בשפחתו של מציק אחד ברימון שהטילה נפל לבור
11 For R'Oshaia said: one may practise an artifice with his produce and take it in its husks, so that his cattle may eat thereof and it be exempt from tithes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Produce is not liable to tithes unless it is taken into the house through the front door when its work is completed, not through the roof or the backyard. If grain is brought in in its husks its work is not complete, as this is still to be separated, and it is not liable to tithe, and need not be tithed by Scriptural law; a human being may then make a light meal of it, while cattle may eat their fill. Thus there it may never have become liable to tithe at all. Though a human being may not make a meal of it, that is only a Rabbinical law and is certainly nullified here by the presumption that the haber had tithed it. But in its essence we see that it is doubt against doubt; the doubt whether it was liable to tithe at all offset by the doubt that it may have been tithed.');"><sup>10</sup></span> But cannot a doubt negative a certainty? Surely it was taught, R'Judah said: It once happened that the bondmaid of a certain oppressor<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A powerful Jew (Rashi) who wielded his power oppressively.');"><sup>11</sup></span> in Rimon<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A town originally belonging to the tribe of Zebulun, on the north-east frontier (Josh. XIX, 13) . It may correspond to the present Al-Rummanah, on the southern edge of the plain of Al-Battof, about ten kilometres north of Nazareth.');"><sup>12</sup></span> threw her premature-born child into a pit,