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סבר: אותו חבר אוכל ואינו צריך לעשר, דודאי עישורי מעשר ההוא חבר קמא עילויה. ורבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר: לא יאכל עד שיעשר, לפי שלא נחשדו חברים לתרום שלא מן המוקף. ואמר ליה רבי: מוטב שיחשדו חברים לתרום שלא מן המוקף ואל יאכילו עמי הארץ טבלים.
holds: That ḥaver, who heard the first ḥaver speaking to the am ha’aretz, may immediately eat from the basket, and he is not required to tithe the produce, as the first ḥaver certainly separated tithes for the person who picked the figs, as he would not have caused an am ha’aretz to eat tevel. And Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel disagrees and says: That ḥaver may not eat of the fruit until he has tithed them, for ḥaverim are not suspected of separating teruma and tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt. And R' Yehuda HaNasi said to him: It is better that ḥaverim should be suspected of separating teruma and tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt, and they should not feed amei ha’aretz produce that is tevel.
במאי קמיפלגי? רבי סבר: ניחא ליה לחבר דלעביד הוא איסורא קלילא ולא ליעבד עם הארץ איסורא רבה. ורבן שמעון בן גמליאל סבר: ניחא ליה לחבר דליעבד עם הארץ איסורא רבה, ואיהו אפילו איסורא קלילא לא ליעבד.
The Talmud asks: With regard to what principle do they disagree? The Talmud answers: R' Yehuda HaNasi holds: It is preferable to a ḥaver that he commit a minor transgression, namely separating tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt, so that an am ha’aretz will not commit the major transgression of eating tevel on his account. And Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel holds: It is preferable to a ḥaver that an am ha’aretz commit a major transgression, and that he himself not commit even a minor transgression.
מתני׳ נתנו באילן, למעלה מעשרה טפחים — אין עירובו עירוב, למטה מעשרה טפחים — עירובו עירוב. נתנו בבור, אפילו עמוק מאה אמה — עירובו עירוב.
Mishnah: If one placed his eiruv in a tree above 10 handbreadths from the ground, his eiruv is not a valid eiruv; if it is below 10 handbreadths, his eiruv is a valid eiruv. If he placed the eiruv in a pit, even if it was 100 cubits deep, his eiruv is a valid eiruv.