Today's Mishnah Yomi
Demai 3:4 - 3:5
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, November 29, 2027 is Demai 3:4 - 3:5
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Demai Perek 3 Mishnah 4
דמאי פרק ג׳ משנה ד׳
Bartenura
לטוחן כותי. לכותי שטוחן התבואה:
הרי הן בחזקתן. דלא חשידי שמא החליפו אלו המתוקנים באחרים שאינן מתוקנין:
לטוחן עובד כוכבים דמאי. דעובד כוכבים חשוד להחליף ולבתר דאשכחו יונה בראש הר גריזים לכותים שהיו עובדים אותה, כותי הרי הוא כעובד כוכבים:
אצל העובד כוכבים כפירותיו. ופירות של עובד כוכבים פטורים מן המעשר. ורישא מפני שדרך בני אדם להוליך קופות רבות של חטים ולהניחן אצל הטוחן חיישינן שמא נתחלפה קופה זו בקופות אחרות של ישראל שהן דמאי, אבל פירות ליכא למימר שמא החליפן בפירות של ישראל אלא שמא החליפן העובד כוכבים בפירותיו לפיכך הרי הן כפירותיו של עובד כוכבים. ורבי שמעון סבר דאף בפירות חיישינן שמא נתחלפו בבית העובד כוכבים בפירות של ישראל אחר, שכשם שישראל זה הפקיד פירותיו ביד העובד כוכבים כך יש לחוש שמא ישראל אחר מן החשודים על המעשרות הפקיד גם כן בידו ונתחלפו אלו באלו. ואין הלכה כר׳ שמעון:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Demai Perek 3 Mishnah 5
דמאי פרק ג׳ משנה ה׳
Bartenura
פונדקית – mistress of the inn and those who travel on the way lodge with her [at the inn].
מעשר את שהוא נותן לה – a person who is a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse doesn’t release anything from his hand that is not made legally fit for use by giving the priestly dues.
ואת שהוא נוטל ממנה – for even though someone not observing certain religious customs concerning tithing is not suspected of exchanging as we stated above (in Mishnah 4), the mistress of an inn is suspected of exchanging, which she intends for good and gives from her own which is better to a person who is a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse, for she says to her heart that it appropriate that I will feed from own which is worm and good to a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse and I will take his which is cold and worse.
אין אנו אחראין לרמאין – that is to say, the responsibility of deceivers is not upon us to guard them that they will not eat something that is not tithed. Therefore he does not tithe what he gives her (i.e., the mistress of the inn) and if the mistress of the inn acquires it for herself and to eat it when it is not legally fit for use by giving the priestly dues, the person who is a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse has nothing from this and does not tithe other than what he takes alone. But Rabbi Yossi holds that she intends to steal. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
פונדקית. שומרת הפונדק והולכי דרכים מתאכסנים אצלה:
מעשר את שהוא נותן לה. דאין חבר מוציא מתחת ידו דבר שאינו מתוקן:
ואת שהוא נוטל ממנה. דאע״ג דעם הארץ אינו חשוד להחליף כדאמרן לעיל, הפונדקית חשודה להחליף שהיא מתכוונת לטובה ונותנת משלה שהוא יותר יפה לחבר ואומרת בלבה ראוי שאאכיל משלי שהוא חם ויפה לחבר ואני אטול את שלו הקר והגרוע:
אין אנו אחראין לרמאים. כלומר אין אחריות הרמאים עלינו לשומרם שלא יאכלו דבר שאינו מעושר. לפיכך אינו מעשר מה שהוא נותן לה ואם תקחנו הפונדקית לעצמה ותאכלנו כשאינו מתוקן אין לחבר מזה כלום ואינו מעשר אלא מה שהוא נוטל בלבד. ור׳ יוסי סבר דלגזול היא מתכונת, ואין הלכה כר׳ יוסי:
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לטוחן כותי – to a Cuthean who mijlls grain.
הרי אלו בחזקתן – - they do not suspect that perhaps they switches those that were made legally fit for use by giving the priestly dues with others that are not legally fit for use.
לטוחן עובד כוכבים דמאי – for an idolator is suspected of exchanging. But after [the effigy] of a dove was found at the top of Mount Gerizim that they were worshipping it, a Cuthean is [considered] like an idolater.
אצל העובד כוכבים כפירותיו – and the produce of idolaters are exempt from tithing. But the first clause [of the Mishnah] because it was the manner of people to bring many baskets of wheat and to leave them with the miller, we suspect lest this basket was exchanged with other baskets of Israelites which are doubtfully tithed, but regarding produce one is not able to say lest he exchanged them with produce of an Isaelite but rather lest the idolater exchanged them with his produce, therefore they are like the produce of the idolater. But Rabbi Shimon holds that even with produce we suspect lest they were exchanged in the house of the idolater with produce of another Israelite, for just as this Israelite deposited his produce in the hands of an idolater, so there is reason to suspect lest another Israelite is among those who are suspect sn tithing, he also deposited [produce] in his care and these were exchanged with those. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.