Une vigne plantée dans une cour: on peut prendre une grappe entière [et la manger sans dîme]. De même avec une grenade, ou un melon, les mots du rabbin Tarfon. Rabbi Akiva dit: il peut cueillir [les raisins] de la grappe, ou démonter la grenade, ou couper le melon [et manger sans dîme]. Coriandre qui a été semée dans une cour: on peut cueillir feuille par feuille et manger [sans dîme], mais s'il les combine, il est tenu [de verser la dîme]. Satureia Thymbra , hysope et thym qui sont dans la cour, s'ils sont protégés, ils ont besoin de [dîmes].
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נוטל את האשכול – he eats in his normal manner and he doesn’t need to pick single berries, and similarly with pomegranates, he does not need to eat single grapes, and similarly, with a melon, he does not need to eat a slice, that is to cut thin slices.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maasrot
Introduction
Our mishnah continues to deal with plants growing inside a courtyard.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maasrot
ר"ע אומר – and the Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiva.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maasrot
A vine which was planted in a courtyard: one may take a whole cluster [and eat it without tithing]. Similarly with a pomegranate, or a melon, the words of Rabbi Tarfon. According to Rabbi Tarfon, one can eat the whole unit of fruit without tithing in the cases of a grape vine, pomegranate or melon growing in the courtyard. The cluster of grapes is treated as one integral unit, and therefore he can eat the whole thing.
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כוסבר – this is its name in Arabic and it is coriander seed.
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Rabbi Akiva says: he can pick single berries from the cluster, or split the pomegranate into slices, or cut slices of melon [and eat without tithing]. Rabbi Akiva rules more strictly and says that one can only eat pieces of these fruits without tithing. If he wants to eat the whole cluster of grapes, the whole pomegranate or the whole melon, he must first tithe it because it is already in the courtyard.
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מקרסם – cut/sever.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Maasrot
Coriander which was sown in a courtyard: one may pluck leaf by leaf and eat [without tithing], but if he ate them together he is liable [for tithes]. As was the case with the figs in yesterday’s mishnah, if he gathers several leaves together he must tithe before he eats, but if he plucks and eats them one at a time, he can eat without tithing.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maasrot
סיאה – in Arabic PUDNAG, and in the foreign language POLIO.
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Savory and hyssop, and thyme which are in the courtyard, if they are kept watch over, they are liable for tithe. If a person has grown these plants to be spices for human consumption, and he is watching over them, then the fact that they are in the courtyard makes them immediately liable for tithing. He can’t eat them at all until they are tithed.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Maasrot
הקורנית – in Arabic CHASHA, and in the foreign language SHADRIAH.
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אם היו נשמרים חייבים – for there is no liability for tithing other than eating and something guarded.
