Today's Mishnah Yomi
Demai 6:6 - 6:7
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, December 12, 2027 is Demai 6:6 - 6:7
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Demai Perek 6 Mishnah 6
דמאי פרק ו׳ משנה ו׳
Bartenura
לא ימכור אדם זיתיו. זיתים שנתלשו מן האילן ולא הוכשרו לקבל טומאה, כגון שעדיין לא הזיעו זיעת המעטן שהיא מכשירתן לקבל טומאה:
אלא לחבר. לפרוש המוחזק לטהרות ולא ימכרם למי שאינו חבר שלא ידרוך אותם בטומאה:
אף למעשר. אף למי שלא קיבל עליו אלא לעשר אבל לא קבל עליו להיות מוחזק לטהרות יכול למוכרם, דכיון דאכתי לא הוכשרו אימור שמא יאכלם קודם שיזיעו. ואע״ג דרוב זיתים אין עומדין לאכלן כך, בעלילה כל דהו דמצינן לתלות תלינן. ורמב״ם מוקי פלוגתייהו דבית שמאי ובית הלל דב״ש סברי אסור לגרום טומאה לחולין שבא״י וב״ה סברי מותר לגרום טומאה לחולין שבא״י:
וצנועי בית הלל. ותיקין המדקדקים במצות שהיו בב״ה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Demai Perek 6 Mishnah 7
דמאי פרק ו׳ משנה ז׳
Bartenura
אחד מעשר – one who can be relied on in matters of tithes and Terumah on the tithes.
ואחד אינו מעשר – cannot be relied upon regarding the tithes.
המעשר מעשר את שלו – he makes things legally fit for use by giving the priestly dues on the half of all of what was grown in the vineyard belonging to both of them.
וחלקו בכל מקום שהוא – In the Jerusalem Talmud it explains that this is what he said: and the portion of his colleague, that is, of that which he did not tithe in every place is doubtfully tithed produce. And because there is no choice, we suspect lest half of the part of the person who tithes is in the hand of his colleague who does not tithe and half of the portion of his colleague is in his hand, therefore, even though he already made things legally fit by giving priestly dues of the half of all things that he grew in the vineyard, he is obligated to make things legally fit by giving priestly dues according to the law of doubtfully tithed produce for half of the portion of his colleague that is in his hand.
אחד מעשר. נאמן על המעשרות:
ואחד אינו מעשר. אינו נאמן על המעשרות:
המעשר מעשר את שלו. מתקן החצי מכל מה שגדל בכרם של שניהם:
וחלקו בכל מקום שהוא. בירושלמי מפרש דהכי קאמר וחלקו של חברו דהיינו של זה שאינו מעשר בכל מקום שהוא דמאי הוא. ומשום דאין ברירה חיישינן שמא חצי חלקו של המעשר ביד חברו שאינו מעשר וחצי חלק חברו בידו, הלכך אע״פ שכבר תיקן החצי מכל מה שגדל בכרם חייב לתקן בתורת דמאי חצי חלק חברו שבידו:
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What is Mishnah Yomi?
Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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לא ימכור אדם זיתיו – olives hat became detached from the tree and were not susceptible to receive ritual impurity, as for example, they did not perspire/drip the dripping of the vat/pit where olives are packed until they form a viscid mass where it makes them susceptible to receive ritual impurity.
אלא לחבר – to separate that which is presumed/adhering to ritual purity and he will not sell them to someone who is not a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse/חבר and he will not tread/stamp upon them in ritual impurity.
אף למעשר – even to someone who did not accept upon himself other than to tithe but did not accept upon himself to be presumed/adhering to ritual purity can sell them, for since they yet are not susceptible it can stated that perhaps he ate them prior to their perspiring, for even though most of the olives are not ready to be consumed as such, by pretext, anything that we are able to hang on it, we hang upon it. But Maimonides establishes their dispute of that of the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel, for the School of Shammai holds that it is forbidden to cause ritual impurity to unconsecrated produce that is in the Land of Israel while the School of Hillel holds that it is permissible to cause ritual impurity to unconsecrated produce in the Land of Israel.
וצנועי בית הלל – the conscientiously pious ones who are exacting in observance of the commandments who were in the School of Hillel [and who followed the School of Shammai – who would not sell their olives to anyone other than someone who is a member of the order for the observance of Levitical laws in daily intercourse].