Study Bava Metzia folio 92B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
this laborer may eat and is exempt from separating tithe. Since the Torah granted him permission to eat, he may do so while he is working without separating tithes, as is the case with regard to gifts due to the poor. But if the laborer stipulated: On the condition that I and my sons may eat, or th
And if you say he eats from his own property, why is his son obligated? A son may eat from his father’s table without rendering the food subject to tithes. Ravina said: The reason is because it looks like a sale. Although the produce belongs to the laborer by Torah law, when he makes a deal invol
The Talmud cites yet another relevant source: Come and hear a proof from a Mishnah (93a): In the case of one who hires a laborer to perform labor with his 4th-year produce, such laborers may not eat the fruit, as all fruit of the 4th year of a tree must be taken and consumed in Jerusalem. And if he
And if you say that the laborer eats from the property of Heaven, why must the owner redeem the fruit and feed them? God certainly did not entitle them to transgress a prohibition. Even if by Torah law the laborer is granted a personal right to eat, this applies only to permitted food. The Talmud e
The Talmud suggests another proof: But now state the latter clause of that same Mishnah: If his cakes, in which he had earlier preserved his figs, broke apart and crumbled, so that they must be preserved once again, or if his jugs of wine opened and he hired laborers to reseal them, these laborers