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Having reconciled all the apparent contradictions between the two baraitot according to the opinion of Reish Lakish, the Talmud asks: But according to R' Yoḥanan, who holds inferior produce cannot be consecrated as first fruits, the first baraita is difficult, as it states that inferior produce ca
The Talmud answers: The baraitot cited above contradict R' Yoḥanan’s opinion. But there is a dispute between tanna’im with regard to this issue, as it is taught in a baraita: With regard to produce that grew on a roof, or that grew in a ruin, the owner brings it and recites the accompanying passage
§ The Mishnah states: And all meal offerings come only from the optimal produce. One of the places the Mishnah mentions as having good-quality produce is Aforayim. The superior quality of its produce was so well known that Aforayim was used as an example in colloquial aphorisms. In Moses and Aaron’s
Mishnah: Even when selecting grain for meal offerings from the locations mentioned in the previous Mishnah, one may not bring as a meal offering grain from a fertilized field, nor from an irrigated field, nor from a field of trees, as such fields do not produce grain of optimal quality. But if one
How does one produce optimal-quality grain? He plows the field during the first year, but he does not sow it, and in the 2nd year, he sows it 70 days before Passover, and in that manner it produces grain that will provide an abundance of fine, high-quality, flour.