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ואוכלן בטומאת עצמן לוקה, מה שאין כן בתרומה — לא קתני. אלמא תני ושייר.
and one who eats them when they themselves, the second tithe and first fruits, are ritually impure is flogged, even though he himself is ritually pure, which is not the case with regard to teruma; and these differences the tanna does not teach. Apparently, the tanna of the Mishnah taught certain differences between the cases and omitted others. Therefore, the omission of the halakha governing an uncircumcised man does not prove that it is permitted for him to eat second tithe.
ואסורין לאונן, ורבי שמעון מתיר. מנא להו — דכתיב: ״לא תוכל לאכול בשעריך מעשר דגנך ותירשך ויצהרך וגו׳ ותרומת ידך״, ואמר מר: ״תרומת ידך״ — אלו בכורים, ואיתקש בכורים למעשר: מה מעשר אסור לאונן — אף בכורים אסור לאונן.
§ Having cited the Mishnah, the Talmud proceeds to discuss it. It was taught in the baraita that second tithe and first fruits are forbidden to an acute mourner; and R' Shimon permits an acute mourner to partake of first fruits. The Talmud asks: From where do the Rabbis derive that first fruits are forbidden to one who is in acute mourning? As it is written: “You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil…nor the offering of your hand” (Deuteronomy 12:17), and the Master said: “The offering [teruma] of your hand,” these are the first fruits. And first fruits are juxtaposed in this verse to second tithe: Just as the second tithe is forbidden to an acute mourner, so too, first fruits are forbidden to an acute mourner.
ורבי שמעון: תרומה קרינהו רחמנא, מה תרומה מותרת לאונן — אף בכורים מותרים לאונן.
And R' Shimon counters that since God calls first fruits “teruma,” the halakha governing them is similar to that which governs teruma: Just as teruma is permitted to an acute mourner, so too, first fruits are permitted to an acute mourner.