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״וענתך״ – אמר מר זוטרא: אפילו עני המתפרנס מן הצדקה, יעשה צדקה. ״לא אענך עוד״ – תני רב יוסף: שוב אין מראין לו סימני עניות.
The Talmud addresses the continuation of the verse: “And though I have afflicted you [ve’innitikh]” (Nahum 1:12). Mar Zutra says: This means that even a poor person [ani] who is sustained from charity must also perform charity. With regard to the expression: “And I will afflict you [a’anekh] no more,” Rav Yosef teaches: This means that if he gives charity to others, God will no longer show him signs of poverty [aniyyut].
רבי יהודה אומר, מרקם למזרח כו׳: למימרא דעכו לצפונה דארץ ישראל קיימא?! ורמינהו: היה מהלך מעכו לכזיב; מימינו – למזרח הדרך – טמאה משום ארץ העמים, ופטורה מן המעשר ומן השביעית, עד שיודע לך שהיא חייבת.
§ The Mishnah teaches that R' Yehuda says: From Rekem and eastward is considered to be a country overseas, from Akko and northward is also outside of Eretz Yisrael, and Akko itself is like north of Eretz Yisrael. The Talmud asks: Is this to say that Akko is located to the north of Eretz Yisrael? And the Talmud raises a contradiction from a baraita (Tosefta, Oholot 18:14) that indicates that Akko is not on the northern border of Eretz Yisrael: If one was traveling from Akko to Keziv, the area on his right, to the east of the road, is impure due to the impurity of the land of the nations, and that area is exempt from the obligation to separate tithe from its produce and from the mitzvot of the Sabbatical Year, as it is assumed to be outside of Eretz Yisrael, until he arrives at a place where it is known to you that it is obligated.
משמאלו – למערב הדרך – טהורה משום ארץ העמים, וחייבת במעשר ובשביעית, עד שיודע לך שהיא פטורה. עד היכן? עד כזיב. רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי אומר משום אביו: עד לבלבו.
The baraita continues: Conversely, the territory on his left, to the west of the road, is pure with regard to the impurity of the land of the nations, as it is assumed to be within Eretz Yisrael, and obligated in the mitzva to separate tithe from its produce and in the mitzvot of the Sabbatical Year, until he arrives at a place where it is known to you that it is exempt. Until where does this halakha apply? Until Keziv. R' Yishmael, son of R' Yosei, said in the name of his father: Until the place known as Lavlevu. In any case, this indicates that Akko is not considered the northern border of Eretz Yisrael, as the description in the baraita indicates that Keziv is further north than Akko.