Comentario sobre Ma'aserot 2:3
הַמַּעֲלֶה פֵרוֹת מִן הַגָּלִיל לִיהוּדָה, אוֹ עוֹלֶה לִירוּשָׁלַיִם, אוֹכֵל מֵהֶם עַד שֶׁהוּא מַגִּיעַ לְמָקוֹם שֶׁהוּא הוֹלֵךְ, וְכֵן בִּיהוּדָה. רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, עַד שֶׁהוּא מַגִּיעַ לִמְקוֹם הַשְּׁבִיתָה. וְהָרוֹכְלִין הַמְּחַזְּרִין בָּעֲיָרוֹת, אוֹכְלִים עַד שֶׁמַּגִּיעִים לִמְקוֹם הַלִּינָה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הַבַּיִת הָרִאשׁוֹן הוּא בֵיתוֹ:
Si uno trae productos de Galilea a Judá o hace una peregrinación [y trae productos] a Jerusalén, puede comer [de los productos] hasta que llegue al lugar adonde iba, y también al regresar. El rabino Meir dice, hasta que llega al lugar de la parada. Y los comerciantes que venden en las ciudades pueden comer hasta que lleguen al lugar donde duermen. El rabino Yehudah dice que la primera casa [en la ciudad donde dormirá debe considerarse como si] fuera su casa.
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המעלה פירות מן מגליל – he harvested fruit/produce In the Galilee in order to sell them in Judea and they were not established for tithing, even if he lodged along the way until he would arrive in Judea for it was his intention to sell them there.
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Introduction
In yesterday’s mishnah we learned that bring one’s produce into another person’s home doesn’t make the produce liable for tithes. Only bringing it into one’s own home makes it liable for tithes.
In today’s mishnah we learn about people traveling on the road and staying at other people’s homes and when their food becomes liable for tithes.
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וכן בחזרה – if prior to his arrival in Judea, he changed his mind to return them to the Galilee, he consumes from them an incidental meal on the road until he would arrive in the Galilee.
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One who brings produce from the Galilee to Judea, or if he goes up to Jerusalem, he may eat of them until he arrives at the place to which he intends to go, and the same is true when he returns. When one is traveling on the road for business, or making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and he enters an inn to spend the night while on the way, he can continue to eat the harvested produce without tithing it until he gets to the place, meaning the home that he intended to go to. This is true even if that house is not actually his home. However, bringing the produce into someone else’s home while still on the way does not make it liable for tithes.
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עד שהוא מגיע למקום השביתה – to the place where he wants to rest there on the Sabbath, and immediately upon his arrival there, his produce/fruit became established for tithing, even though Shabbat had not yet arrived, but the Halakha Is not according to Rabbi Meir.
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Rabbi Meir says: [he may eat] until he reaches the place where he intends to rest [on Shabbat]. Rabbi Meir says that once he gets to the place where he wants to spend Shabbat he can no longer eat his produce without tithing it, even if he gets to that place at some earlier time during the week. The beginning of Shabbat always means that produce must be tithed before it is eaten, but Rabbi Meir adds that just merely being at the place where one will spend Shabbat already makes the produce liable for tithes even if it is not yet Shabbat.
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But peddlers who travel from town to town may eat until they reach the place where they intend to stay over night. Peddlers are constantly on the move, going from one place to another, and they don’t really have one place to which they are going. Therefore, the arrival at any place where they intend to spend the night makes their produce liable for tithes.
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והרוכלין המחזרין בעיירות – to sell spices and women’s anointing [perfumes] and he brings with him produce/fruit, they consume from them an incidental meal until they arrive at the place of lodging and when they arrive there, the produce has been established for tithing.
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Rabbi Judah says: the first house [he reaches] is his house. Rabbi Judah is even stricter and rules that even if he doesn’t intend to spend the night in a certain place, just entering any house makes his produce liable for tithes. A peddler’s home is whatever place he ends up in, and not just one that he plans on going to beforehand.
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ר' יהודה אומר בית ראשון – [the first house] that is in the city where he is lodging there, establishes for tithing, and even if he dodges in the other portion of the city, because a person wants to empty/remove his utensils at the first house that he approaches in order to lodge there, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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