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The rabbis taught: If most of the knives have been set aside, the figs left in the field are permitted with regard to the laws of stealing and are exempt from tithes, since their owners presumably do not want them and the figs are therefore considered ownerless property.
The Talmud relates: R' Yehuda HaNasi and R' Yosei bar R' Yehuda arrived at a certain place at a time when most of the knives had been set aside. R' Yehuda HaNasi ate the figs left in the field, but R' Yosei bar R' Yehuda did not eat. The owner of the field came and said to them: Why are the rabbis n
The Talmud relates another incident: R' Ḥama bar R' Ḥanina arrived at a certain place at a time when most of the knives had been set aside. He ate from the figs that were left in the field, but when he gave some to his attendant the latter did not eat. R' Ḥama said to him: Eat, as R' Yishmael bar
The Talmud relates another incident: A certain man found R' Tarfon eating figs from his field at the time when most of the knives had been set aside. He placed R' Tarfon in a sack, lifted him up, and carried him to throw him into the river. R' Tarfon said to him: Woe to Tarfon, for this man is kill
And with regard to this statement, Rabba bar bar Ḥana said that R' Yoḥanan said: Whoever makes use of the crown of Torah is uprooted from the world. This can be derived by means of an a fortiori inference: If Belshazzar, who made use of the sacred Temple vessels, which had already become non-sacred