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Sifrei Devarim 282

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 24:19) "When you reap your harvest in the field, if you forget a sheaf in the field, do not return to take it": to exclude its being reaped by robbers, ravaged by ants, or broken by the wind or by beasts.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"your harvest": to exclude that which appertains to the Temple and to gentiles — whence they ruled: A gentile who reaped his field and then became a convert is exempt from leket, shikchah, and peah. R. Yehudah makes him liable for shikchah; for shikchah obtains only at the time of sheaving, (at which time he was a Jew.)

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English · Shraga Silverstein

R. Yossi Haglili says: (It is written) "When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf": Wherever your reaping obtains, shikchah ("forgetting") obtains in the sheaves; wherever your reaping does not obtain, shikchah does not obtain in the sheaves — which is to say that if the Temple reaped (the field) and an Israelite bought it, he is exempt (from shikchah); if a gentile reaped (the field) and an Israelite bought it, he is exempt.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"in your field": excluding (from shikchah) one who makes sheaves in his neighbor's field. These are the words of R. Meir; the sages rule it liable (for shikchah).

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