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Meilah 22 מעילה
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Bold is the Talmud’s own words. The regular text between is explanation woven in by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (1937 to 2020), whose English translation this is. A mishna is the short ruling a passage starts from; the Gemara is the discussion of it; a baraita is an early teaching quoted from outside the Mishna.
Meilah 22a מעילה כ״ב א
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An objection Wine bought from SamaritansRav Pappa contrasts the purses mishna with one about wine that may still owe teruma, the priests’ portion.1
Rav Pappa said yet another version of Reish Lakish’s question. He raised a contradiction between the mishna here involving purses and another mishna referring to a log measure. As we learned in a mishna (Demai 7:4): In the case of one who purchases wine from among the Samaritans [Kutim] and there is reason to suspect that teruma and tithes were not separated, and he cannot separate them before the start of Shabbat, what should he do?
רַב פָּפָּא אָמַר: כִּיסִין אַלּוּגִּין רְמָא לֵיהּ, דִּתְנַן: הַלּוֹקֵחַ יַיִן מִבֵּין הַכּוּתִים
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A case Rabbi Meir: two log are terumaHe declares set measures within the hundred log as teruma and tithes to be separated later, then drinks.2
The mishna explains that he proceeds as follows. If, for example, there are one hundred log of wine in the barrels, he says: Two log that I will separate in the future are teruma, as the established average measure of teruma is one-fiftieth; ten log are first tithe; and one-tenth of the remainder, which is nine log, are second tithe. And he desacralizes the second tithe that he will separate in the future, transferring its sanctity to money, and he may drink the wine in the barrel immediately, relying on the separation that he will perform later. This is the statement of Rabbi Meir.
אוֹמֵר: ״שְׁנֵי לוּגִּין שֶׁאֲנִי עָתִיד לְהַפְרִישׁ – הֲרֵי הֵן תְּרוּמָה, עֲשָׂרָה – מַעֲשֵׂר רִאשׁוֹן, תִּשְׁעָה – מַעֲשֵׂר שֵׁנִי״, וּמֵיחֵל וְשׁוֹתֶה מִיָּד, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי מֵאִיר.
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An answer Rabbi Yohanan: he meant the last coinThree sages reject retroactive designation; Rabbi Yohanan says the mishna means the last peruta, a small coin, left.3
Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Yosei and Rabbi Shimon prohibit one from doing so. These three Sages reject the principle of retroactive designation, upon which this method relies, as at the time of the declaration the identity of the particular portions of wine that will be teruma and tithes is unknown. Even according to Rabbi Meir, one can rely on retroactive designation only in a case where he says: That I will separate in the future. In the case of the mishna here, each peruta might be the consecrated one, and one cannot rely on the last one. Rabbi Yoḥanan said to him: The latter clause of the mishna is referring to a situation where one said: This purse will not be exempt from consecration, in which case he is understood as referring to the last peruta left in the purse.
רַבִּי יְהוּדָה וְרַבִּי יוֹסֵי וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹסְרִים! אֲמַר לֵיהּ: סֵיפָא דְּמַתְנִיתִין בְּאוֹמֵר ״לֹא יִפָּטֵר כִּיס זֶה מִן הַהֶקְדֵּשׁ״.
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