Peah 8:6 - 8:7

מדה זו – since we don’t give any less to the poor that is stated for Kohanim, Levites and Israelites, each one of them to whom we distribute the Poor Man’s Tithe in the threshing floor/granary should not receive less than this measurement.

היה מציל – for he does not want to distribute to the poor who came all the Poor Man’s Tithe that is in his hand, but he wants to save from it for his poor relatives.

נוטל מחצה – and hides it for the needs of his relatives.

ונותן מחצה – to the poor people came, and if after he took the half and hid it for the needs of his relatives, he had a little bit, that is to say, that thre didn’t remain to him enough to give to every one of the poor people according to the fixed measurement mentioned above in our Mishnah, he places it before them what remains in his hand in order that they can divide it among themselves.

ככר בפונדיון – bread that is sold for a Pundiyon when the wheat is sold at four S’eah for a Selah, and these four Se’ah are twenty-four Kabs, and each Se’ah is six Kabs and the Selah is four Denars and each Denar is six Ma’ahs , it is found that the Selah is twenty-four Ma’ah and and it is found that twenty-four kabs for twenty-four Ma’ah, a Kab for each Ma’ah. But because the storekeeper wants to make money for his expenditures of baking and grinding, it is impossible to sell the bread which is one-half Kab per Pundiyon according to the value that they sell grain in the market place, four Se’ah for a Selah, therefore, the bread is not sold for a Pundiyon but only for one-quarter Kab. And when they distribute the grain to the poor in the grainary and it is upon him to grind [it] and bake [it], they don’t give less than one-half Kab, but when they give him a baked loaf, he does not get other than one-quarter of a Kab which is six eggs. This is explained in the [eighth] chapter of Tractate Eruvin, the Chapter “How do you prepare a Shittuf for the Sabbath line?”

פרנסת לינה – a bed, pillows and cushions.

מזון שלש סעודות – for a person is liable to eat three meals on the Sabbath.

לא יטול מן התמחוי – because the soup-kitchen is distributed every day and the treasurers/managers go back out to the openings of the home owners on each day and take from them food for the needs of the poor, and the utensil that they place the food is called a תמחוי/ charity plate.

לא יטול מן הקופה – for the communal fund is distributed from Friday to Friday.

נגבית בשנים – because they may [forcibly] take collateral, and one doesn’t make an authority over a community with less than two [people].

ומתחלקת בשלשה – because it is like the monetary matters and monetary matters are with three (see the beginning of Tractate Sanhedrin).