Challah 4:9 - 4:10

החרמים – for the Kohanim, as it is written (Numbers 18:14): “Everything that has been proscribed in Israel (see also Leviticus 27:28) shall be yours.”

והבכורות – if he is unblemished, there are the holy things of the Temple, but if he is blemished, it is written (Deuteronomy 12:15): “…The unclean and the clean alike may partake of it, [as of the gazelle and the deer].”

ופדיון פטר חמור – you redeem it with a lamb and it has no sanctity.

ראשית הגז – as it is written (Deuteronomy 18:4): “You shall also give him [the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil,] and the first shearing of your sheep.”

ושמן שרפה – oil from the priest’s due that was deilved.

וקדשי מקדש – for they did not prohibit giving to the Kohen that which he was not careful about in its ritual impurity, but rather a thing which has a prohibition of defilement in the areas outside the Temple and Jerusalem, such as Terumah/priest’s due and the tithe-of-the-tithe (which the Levite gives to the Kohen from the one-tenth that he received from an Israelite) and Hallah, but the sanctified things of the Temple and Firstlings which he brings them to the Temple Court, they did not suspect, for he would [first] purify himself.

ור' יהודה אוסר בבכורים – for he was suspect that perhaps he would not be careful with them, since the Divine Service is not performed with them. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

ר"ע מתיר – for Rabbi Akiba follows his own reasoning, as he stated in the second chapter of Maaser Sheni (Mishnah 4) that [regarding] vetches/horse-beans – anything done with them is done in a state of uncleanness.

וחכמים אוסרים – for they think that it is food, since is eaten in the years of famine. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

מביתר – name of a place outside the Land of Israel

ולא קבלו ממנו – to eat them is impossible, for they were defiled in the land of the heathens, and to burn them, is impossible since their ritual impurity is unknown, lest people say that we say sacred pure produce of the priest that was burned, and to return them to their places is impossible so that people don’t say that Terumah went out from the Land of Israel to outside the Land of Israel, but rather, we leave them until the eve of Passover and burn them [as part of the Hametz that is burned].

וחג הקציר בכורי מעשיך – for the two loaves are called Bikkurim/First Fruits, and we permit the [consumption of the] new [grain] in the Temple.