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that is gathered in smoothed piles, from a non-Jew, he tithes the piles but they are his, as he is not required to give the teruma to a priest or the tithes to a Levite.
The Talmud asks: Who smoothed the piles? If we say that a non-Jew smoothed them, doesn’t God state: “Your grain” (Deuteronomy 12:17, 18:4), with regard to teruma and tithes, indicating that only grain whose processing is completed by a Jew is subject to the rules of teruma and tithes, but not the g
Rather, clearly a Jew smoothed them while they were in the possession of the non-Jew before purchasing them. Therefore, he tithes them, as a non-Jew has no capability of acquisition of land in Eretz Yisrael that would cause the abrogation of the sanctity of the land, thereby removing it from the ob
§ The Talmud cites an additional discussion involving this issue: We learned in a Mishnah elsewhere (Demai 3:4) that with regard to one who deposits his produce with a Samaritan or with one who is unreliable with regard to tithes [am ha’aretz], when they return it to him, the produce retains its pr
But in the case of one who deposits his produce with a non-Jew, the produce returned to him is treated as the produce of the non-Jew, as he presumably exchanged it with his own. R' Shimon says: It is treated as doubtfully tithed produce [demai], as it is uncertain whether the non-Jew exchanged th