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holds: That ḥaver, who heard the first ḥaver speaking to the am ha’aretz, may immediately eat from the basket, and he is not required to tithe the produce, as the first ḥaver certainly separated tithes for the person who picked the figs, as he would not have caused an am ha’aretz to eat tevel. And
The Talmud asks: With regard to what principle do they disagree? The Talmud answers: R' Yehuda HaNasi holds: It is preferable to a ḥaver that he commit a minor transgression, namely separating tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt, so that an am ha’aretz will
Mishnah: If one placed his eiruv in a tree above 10 handbreadths from the ground, his eiruv is not a valid eiruv; if it is below 10 handbreadths, his eiruv is a valid eiruv. If he placed the eiruv in a pit, even if it was 100 cubits deep, his eiruv is a valid eiruv.
Talmud: R' Ḥiyya bar Abba sat, and with him sat R' Asi and Rava bar Natan, and Rav Naḥman sat beside them, and they sat and said: This tree mentioned in the Mishnah, where does it stand? If you say it stands in the private domain, what is the difference to me whether the eiruv is placed above 10 ha
Rather, say that the tree stands in the public domain; but in that case the question arises: Where did the person intend to establish his Shabbat residence? If you say that he intended to establish his Shabbat residence in the tree above, he and his eiruv are in one place. Consequently, the eiruv