תלמוד על חגיגה 7:15

“Slaves”. Let us hear from the following: Three times a year shall all your males be seen⁴⁷Ex. 23:17. Babli 4a., anybody who has no master but the Holy One, praise to Him. This excludes the slave who has another master. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, from where that anybody who keeps the commandment of appearance is like one who greets the Divine Presence? From this, Three times a year shall all your males be seen before the face of the Master, the Eternal, etc⁴⁷Ex. 23:17. Babli 4a..

Rebbi Joḥanan said, our teachers in the Diaspora¹¹⁵In Babylonia. used to separate heave and tithes until the youngsters came and dissuaded them. Who are the youngsters? The interpreters¹¹⁶Those who explain difficult passages. Their identity is unknown. In Gen.rabba 51(12) a R. Hoshaia the Interpreter and in 65(6) a Ḥizqiahu the Interpreter are mentioned. The time of the first cannot be determined; the second must be later than R. Berekhiah of the last generation of Galilean Amoraïm. The Babli does not mention any change of practice.. Rebbi Zeïra, Rav Jehudah in the name of Samuel: For ḥallah from outside the Land and heave from outside the Land one may eat before one separates¹¹⁷One may eat from what in the Land would be ṭevel and declare the remainder as ḥallah or heave. This is quoted in the name of Samuel, as practice, by the Babli (Beẓah 9a, Bekhorot 27a).. Rebbi Abba in the name of Samuel: They only worried about heave of grain, cider, and oil. Rebbi Hila in the name of Samuel: They only worried about heave¹¹⁸In Babylonia they only gave Great Heave for grain, wine, and olive oil, but no tithes. This is confirmed by the fact that tithes from outside the Land (including Transjordan and Syria) are never mentioned in either Talmud., but for vegetables they did not worry even about the Great Heave, as it was stated: Issi ben Aqabiah says that tithes for vegetables are rabbinical¹¹⁹Even in the Land there is no biblical obligation for any produce other than grain, wine, and olive oil. Therefore, outside the Land there is no reason to observe heaves and tithes even as a remembrance of the Land..