A quantidade de Terumah : uma quantidade generosa de olhos claros: uma em cada quarenta. Beit Shammai diz: em trinta. A média [quantidade]: de cinquenta. Uma quantia mesquinha: de sessenta. Se ele deixou de lado Terumah e descobriu que era apenas um em sessenta, [é válido] Terumah e ele não precisou deixar de lado [mais] Terumah . Se ele voltar e adicionar [mais Terumah ], [a quantia extra] exigirá o dízimo. Se ele descobrisse que era apenas um em sessenta e cinco [é válido] Terumah , mas ele deveria separar Terumah novamente de acordo com sua prática habitual, em medida, peso ou número. O rabino Yehudah diz: [ele pode] mesmo [deixar de lado Terumah ] não dos arredores [produzir].
Tosefta Maasrot
[If the owner of a field] said to him, "Go out and gather figs for yourself from the fig tree," he may eat casually from them and tithe them as certainly untithed produce. [If he] said to him, "Go out and fill yourself up this basket," he may eat from them casually and tithe them as Demai. In what case does this apply? With [a field belonging to] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he may eat and there is no need to tithe, the words of Rebbi. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, In what case does this apply? With [the field of] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he should not eat until he has tithed, since chaverim are not be suspected of taking Terumah [on behalf of other produce] that is not in close by (and thus we can be certain that the chaver-owner would not have already tithed these figs (see Ter. 4:3)). Said Rebbi (not "Rabbi Yehuda"), my words are preferable to the words of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel. It is better that chaverim will take Terumah [from produce] that is not close by and not feed untithed produce to amei ha'aretz.
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Tosefta Terumot
Said Rabbi Yosei, how do we know that terumah is one in fifty? As it is said (Num. 31:30), "And from the half-share of the Children of Israel you are to take one, withheld from the fifty," [and therefore] even that which I (i.e., God) apportioned to you in another place, behold, just as there it is one in fifty, so too here it is one in fifty. How do we know that if we take terumah and [only] one in sixty come into our hands, that our terumah is [valid] terumah? As it is said (Ezek. 45:13), "This is the contribution you shall make: One-sixth of an ephah from every chomer of wheat and one-sixth of an ephah from every chomer of barley" (an ephah is one-tenth of a chomer, and thus a sixth of an ephah is one sixtieth of a chomer). Rabbi Yishmael [son of Rabbi Yosei] says, it is [derived] from the cities of the Levites. [Note: Per Minchat Bikkurim, Rabbi Yishmael alludes to the proportion of 1 in 30, the approximate ratio of Levites (23,000, see Num. 26:62) to the remaining tribes (601,730, see Num. 26:51) before entering the Land of Israel.]
