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Learn from it that the legal status of its 1/5th payment is like that of the principal itself, in that it must be paid from non-sacred property. The Talmud affirms: Learn from it that it is so.
§ Rava said: With regard to robbery, it is written: “And he shall restore the robbed item that he robbed…and he shall add its 1/5th payments to it” (Leviticus 5:23–24), and we learned in a Mishnah (Bava Kamma 103a): If the robber gave the robbery victim the principal and took a false oath to him co
Rava continues: With regard to teruma too, it is written: “If a man eats that which is sacred unwittingly, then he shall add its 1/5th payment to it” (Leviticus 22:14), and as we learned in a Mishnah (Terumot 6:1): One who partakes of teruma unwittingly pays the principal and an additional 1/5th. T
The Talmud pursues a similar line of inquiry: With regard to consecrated property it is written: “And if he who consecrated it will redeem his house, then he shall add 1/5th of the money of your valuation unto it, and it shall be his” (Leviticus 27:15), and we learned in a Mishnah (55b): One who red
Or perhaps we should learn the halakha as follows: With regard to teruma it is written: “Then he shall add [veyasaf ],” and the halakha of 1/5th of the 1/5th is derived in this manner: If you take the letter vav of the word veyasaf, and cast it to the end of the word ḥamishito, its 1/5th payment,