Quoting%20commentary for Maasrot 2:7

הַשּׂוֹכֵר אֶת הַפּוֹעֵל לִקְצוֹת עִמּוֹ בִּתְאֵנִים, אָמַר לוֹ עַל מְנָת שֶׁאוֹכַל תְּאֵנִים, אוֹכֵל וּפָטוּר. עַל מְנָת שֶׁאוֹכַל אֲנִי וּבְנֵי בֵיתִי, אוֹ שֶׁיֹּאכַל בְּנִי בִּשְׂכָרִי, הוּא אוֹכֵל וּפָטוּר, וּבְנוֹ אוֹכֵל וְחַיָּב. עַל מְנָת שֶׁאוֹכַל בִּשְׁעַת הַקְּצִיעָה וּלְאַחַר הַקְּצִיעָה, בִּשְׁעַת הַקְּצִיעָה אוֹכֵל וּפָטוּר, וּלְאַחַר הַקְּצִיעָה אוֹכֵל וְחַיָּב, שֶׁאֵינוֹ אוֹכֵל מִן הַתּוֹרָה. זֶה הַכְּלָל, הָאוֹכֵל מִן הַתּוֹרָה, פָּטוּר, וְשֶׁאֵינוֹ אוֹכֵל מִן הַתּוֹרָה, חַיָּב:

One who has hired a worker to dry figs with him, and [the worker] said to him, “On the condition that I may eat of the figs,” he may eat them and is exempt [from tithing]. [If he said,] “On the condition that my son and I may eat,” or “that my son may eat in lieu of my receiving a wage,” he eats and is exempt [from tithing what he eats], but his son eats and is required [to tithe]. [If he said,] “On the condition that I may eat of them during the harvest time and after the harvest time,” during the harvest time he eats and is exempt [from tithing], but after the harvest time he eats and is required [to tithe], since he does not eat of them in a manner mandated by the Torah. This is the general rule: one who eats in a manner mandated by the Torah is exempt [from tithing], and one who does not eat in the manner mandated by the Torah is required [to tithe].

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