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This is because Yoḥanan the High Priest sent emissaries throughout all the areas located within the borders of Eretz Yisrael to assess the situation and saw that the people were separating only teruma gedola and were neglecting to separate tithes. Therefore, he issued a decree that anyone who purcha
And granted, bakers need not separate first tithe and poor man’s tithe due to the principle: The burden of proof rests upon the claimant. Neither first tithe, given to Levites, nor poor man’s tithe, given to the poor, is sacred. It is merely the property of the Levite and the pauper, respectively.
Ulla said: It is because these parhedrin, government appointees, beat the bakers throughout the entire 12 months of their tenure and tell them: Sell your baked goods cheaply, sell them cheaply. Since the officers insist that the bakers refrain from raising their prices, the rabbis did not further
§ Apropos the Second Temple period, when High Priests were frequently replaced, the Talmud cites that Rabba bar bar Ḥana said that R' Yoḥanan said: What is the meaning of that which is written: “The fear of YHWH prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be shortened” (Proverbs 10:27)? The fear
But the years of the wicked will be shortened; that is a reference to the Second Temple, which stood for 420 years and in which over 300 High Priests served. In calculating the tenures of the High Priests, deduct from the figure of 420 years 40 years that Shimon HaTzaddik served, and 80 years that