Commentaire sur Démaï 5:6
הַלּוֹקֵחַ מִן הַסִּיטוֹן וְחָזַר וְלָקַח מִמֶּנּוּ שְׁנִיָּה, לֹא יְעַשֵּׂר מִזֶּה עַל זֶה, אֲפִלּוּ מֵאוֹתוֹ הַסּוּג, אֲפִלּוּ מֵאוֹתוֹ הַמִּין. נֶאֱמָן הַסִּיטוֹן לוֹמַר, מִשֶּׁל אֶחָד הֵם:
Celui qui achète à un grossiste puis revient et lui achète une seconde fois: il ne peut pas payer la dîme d'un [achat] pour l'autre, même si [les deux sont] le même récipient, même si [les deux sont] du même espèce. On fait confiance au grossiste pour dire: "Ils proviennent d'un seul [vendeur et peuvent donc recevoir la dîme ensemble]".
Bartenura on Mishnah Demai
סיטון (wholesale provision dealer) – a merchant who purchases grain from many different owners together and sells to others at wholesale prices (and the purchaser must tithe them -see Tractate Demai, Chapter 2, Mishnah 4).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Demai
One who buys from a wholesaler, and then buys from him again, he may not give tithes from the one [purchase] for the other, even when both came from the same basket and even from the same kind. This mishnah discusses buying produce from a wholesaler, a person who buys from many different farmers and sells to many storeowners. If he buys once from this wholesaler and then buys from him again, he must tithe separately for each purchase, lest the wholesaler bought from two different people, one of whom already tithed the produce and one who did not. This rule holds true even if he buys the second purchase from the same large basket and of the same type.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Demai
לא יעשר מזה על זה – for perhaps what he purchased from him the second time, he had acquired it from another individual, and he would come to set aside [tithes] from that which is exempt for that which is obligatory.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Demai
But the wholesale merchant may be trusted if he says that both came from the same one. The wholesale merchant may be trusted if he says that both purchases came from the same seller. Note that he is not saying that this person tithed. The merchant cannot automatically be trusted to say that someone tithed. He may be trusted only to say that he bought from the same person, so that the one buying from him can now tithe from one purchase for the other.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Demai
ואפילו מאותו סוג (and even from the same chest – and the same quality) – that is to say, from the same chest. And similar to this is found in Tractate Kelim Chapter 167, Mishnah 3: “The large provisions chest.”
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Bartenura on Mishnah Demai
ואפילו מאותו המין (and even from the same type) – that both of them are reddish dark-colored wheat or both of them are white. But if the wholesale provision dealer stated that he purchased them from one person, he is believed.
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