[Avodah] Appropriate Chumros

[Micha Berger]

Y-mi Shevi'is 7:2 20a has a discussion I found interesting.

The gemara quotes the Tosefta Maaseros 1:2, about herbs that were grown
in the wild in one year, and brought into one's chatzeir and thus become
obligated in maaser in the next.

If it was from the second year of the shemittah cycle going into the
third, the herbs have the din of the 3rd.

If it was from the 6th year going into shemitah, they have the din of
the 6th.

The Y-mi asks, but isn't this inconsistent -- here you say it's toward
the latter, and here you say it's toward the former year?

R' Yosi says that the 3rd and 6th years, even though they don't have
maaser sheini, they still have maasros. The 7th year has no maaser. R'
Avohu adds in the name of R' Yochanan that the 2nd year has priority
over the 3rd because maaser sheini goes to the baal, but maaser ani goes
to aniyim.

IOW, between shemittah and maaser sheini, the chumerah is to favor
maaser sheini. Between measer sheini and maaser ani, being machmir
means giving it to the ani.

Reminds me of RYS's chumerah in matzah baking...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger             Good decisions come from experience;
micha at aishdas.org        Experience comes from bad decisions.
http://www.aishdas.org   	     - Djoha, from a Sepharadi fable
Fax: (270) 514-1507