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the owner gives a payment of 26 dinars. Were they to enable the other person to purchase it for 21 dinars, the Temple treasury would incur a loss, as the principal plus 1/5th paid by the owner is greater than the payment of the other person, who must pay only the principal. Were the owner to pay onl
If the other person offers 25 dinars, the owner gives 30, due to the fact that the owner does not add 1/5th based on the raise in the offer of this other person, but only on the principal according to his own offer. It is clear from these calculations that a principal of 20 plus an addition of 1/5th
The Talmud comments: The two sides of this dilemma are parallel to a dispute between tanna’im, as it is taught in a baraita that it is written: “And shall add unto it 1/5th part thereof” (Leviticus 27:27). This means that the item and its additional 1/5th payment will total 5 parts; 1/5th is calcul
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Does failure to pay the additional 1/5th prevent consumption outside of Jerusalem of second tithe that was redeemed, or does it not prevent consumption? The dilemma is: Is second-tithe produce worth 4 dinars redeemed with 4 dinars, and the obligation to add
Ravina said: Come and hear a resolution to this dilemma from a Mishnah (Demai 1:2): For second tithe of doubtfully tithed produce [demai], whose status is that of untithed produce by rabbinic law, there is no payment of 1/5th if the owner redeems its second tithe, and there is no obligation of the