Demai 7:6 - 7:7

כלכלות – baskets.

מעשרות זו בזו – the tithes that I have to separate from this basket will be placed in its neighbor.

הראשונה מעושרת – [the first – basket- is tithed] and he separates from the second [basket] the tithes of both of them.

של זו בזו ושל זו בזו הראשונה מעושרת – but the second [basket] is not tithed, for immediately when he said, “[the tithes] of this one are in that one,” the first [basket] was made legally fit and became exempted from the tithes, but when he returned and stated, “of this one are in that one,” it is found that he was separating from this one [basket] that already had been exempted through the other one which is liable, and we don’t separate tithes from that which is exempt on that which is required, and he didn’t say anything, and takes from the second [basket] and the tithes for both of them.

מעשרותיהן מעשרות כלכלה בחברתה (their tithes are [designated such that] the tithes of each basket are in the other) – the tithes that are obligatory for these two baskets will be of one basket for the other, for he has designated the tithes of both of them as one and separates [tithes] from one for the other, and from the other for the one, for in each one, left eatables forbidden to be consumed prior to offering the priestly gifts (i.e.,טבל) in order to give tithes of its neighboring [basket]. But he does not separate [tithes] on them from another place, for he has designated a name and established the tithes of each one of them that are in the neighboring basked. Another explanation and this is essential: their tithes he tithes one basket with the other, he has designated by name and he separates [tithes] from whichever one that he wants and this is how we explain this matter of their tithes from either of them that I would want that the tithes will be a basket in his neighboring [basket].

מאה טבל ומאה חולין – that became combined/mixed together.

נוטל מאה ואחד – he takes one hundred [parts] to separate from them First Tithe and Second Tithe according to the law of all eatables that are forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבל, and one [part] he takes from the one-hundred [of] unconsecrated produce for the heave-offering of the tithe (i.e., which the Levite gives to the Kohen) as if they were eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts, for the unconsecrated produce becomes like the eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts itself as regards the heave-offering of the tithe alone, but not as regarding to First Tithe and Second Tithe, and it is found that this loses through this mixture one [part] alone, as he is separating [tithes] from the unconsecrated produce. But the טבל/eatables forbidden pending the separation of priestly gifts that we are speaking about here is that they have had the Great Terumah (i.e., the 1/50th that goes to a Kohen) separated from it already, but the [other] tithes nor the heave-offering of the tithe have yet been separated from it.

מאה טבל ומאה מעשר – that the heave-offering of the tithe had not been separated from the [First] Tithe and they became mixed together, he takes one-hundred [parts] of eatables that are forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבל to separate from them the tithes as explained above, and he takes one [part] from the one-hundred [parts] of [First] Tithe which are made like the טבל/eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts itself to make oneself liable for תרומת מעשר/ the heave-offering of the tithe (the 1/10th that the Levite gives to the Kohen) and there remained ninety-nine [parts], he separates from them the heave-offering of the tithe according to the calculations which are ten [parts] minus the tenth of a part. But if the [First] Tithe did not become combined with eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבל, he would not separate any other than ten [parts] for the heave-offering of the tithe that are within it – [but] now that they had become mixed up with the eatables that are forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts, he separates eleven [parts] minus a tenth, it is found that he loses one [part] less a tenth.

מאה חולין מתוקנין ומאה מעשר – First [Tithe] from which the heave-offering/תרומה had not been separated out [for the Levite] that had become combined, he takes one-hundred parts for the sake of First Tithe in order to separate from them ten [parts] for the heave-offering of the tithe [that the Levite gives to the Kohen] that is in them and ten [parts] he takes from the one-hundred of unconsecrated produce that is legally fit for use following the separation of priestly dues as if they were First Tithe, for ten [parts] are for the heave-offering of the tithe and it is found that he loses ten [parts]. But, that we are not so stringent when they become combined with eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבל to oblige separating from the eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts ten [parts] for the heave-offering of the tithe like the one-hundred of [First] Tithe, because of this is the law for every thing that becomes mixed that it returns to be like it was at its beginning therefore, the [First] Tithe returns to become like eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts but the טבל /eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts does not return to become like [First] Tithe.

מאה טבל ותשעים מעשר וכו' לא הפסיד כלום – for since there is are in the טבל /eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts ten extra, we judge it as if it has provision from another place. And all eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts that became mixed with unconsecrated produce, if there are other eatables that are forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבלים that he can separate on this mixture from another place, he does not separate other than according to the calculation of the eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts alone. But here, when the טבל/eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts is greater by ten on [the First Tithe] we calculate as if they are from another place and one separates from them according to the calculation of eatables forbidden pending the separation of sacred gifts/טבל alone, and he doesn’t lose anything.

כל זמן שהטבל מרובה – and it will be greater by ten, and this is brought in the Jerusalem Talmud.