Wer in Bezug auf Shevi'it verdächtig ist, ist in Bezug auf den Zehnten nicht automatisch verdächtig. Wer in Bezug auf den Zehnten verdächtig ist, ist in Bezug auf Shevi'it nicht automatisch verdächtig . Wer bei beiden verdächtig ist, ist bei der Reinheit verdächtig. Es gibt jemanden, der in Bezug auf Reinheit verdächtig ist, aber in Bezug auf einen der anderen keinen Verdacht hat. Die Regel ist, dass jeder, der in Bezug auf etwas verdächtig ist, dies nicht beurteilen oder Zeugnis geben darf.
Tosefta Demai
One who sends fruits to his friend, and he [presumably the friend] decides to return it, he comports himself [vis-a-vis the returned fruit] according to how it was (i.e., its prior status). Abba Shaul says, "I would be concerned lest it be switched." Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel says, "If he has a sharecropper who knows how to tithe, but he (i.e., the landowner) does not trust him as to tithes, and he (i.e., the sharecropper) brought his fruits to him, and he said, yours (i.e., your share) are tithed, he is believed [in this instance]." Rebbi says, "He is not trustworthy [according to the principle] that one who is suspected regarding [one] matter may neither adjudicate nor testify" (Bekh. 30a:3).
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Tosefta Demai
An am ha'aretz who said, "This is untithed and this is Terumah," [or] "This is certainly untithed and this is Demai," even though they said that a suspect in a case can neither judge nor testify in [that case], we do not suspect a [fellow] Jew on such a thing [and he may be believed].
