Deuteronomy 24:19
Hebrew Bible
18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this. 19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. 20 When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Mishnah Peah 5:6
Mishnah
Rabbinic
One who sells, the seller is permitted [to take the agricultural gifts] and the purchaser is forbidden. One may not hire a worker on the condition that the son [of the worker] should gather the gleanings after him. One who does not allow the poor to gather, or one who allows one but not another, or one who helps one of them [to gather] behold he is a robber of the poor. Concerning him it is said: “Do not remove the landmark of those that come up (olim)” (Proverbs 22:28).
Date: 190-230 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Tags:
Notes and References
"... The terminology for the poor offerings—pe’ah, Gleanings, Forgotten Things, Separated Grapes, Defective Clusters, and the poor tithe—derives from a handful of biblical verses, Leviticus 19:9–10, 23:22 and Deuteronomy 14:28–29, 24:19–22, 26:12–13. In expanding these terms into legal concepts, tractate Pe’ah departs from biblical law in important ways. First, whereas the Hebrew Bible identifies the recipients by legal and social categoriesthe poor, strangers, orphans, and widows—the Mishnah defines eligibility solely by eco nomic criteria (Mishnah Peah 8:8–9). Second, the Mishnah conflates the passages from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, erasing their distinctive contexts. The passages from Leviticus are embed ded in the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–26), as the fulfillment of these obligations is part of an effort to be holy like God. The laws in Deuteronomy are motivated by the promise of a reward, namely a blessing from God (Deuteronomy 24:19). By contrast, tractate Pe’ah instructs that failing to fulfill these obligations is tantamount to theft, equivalent to steal ing what rightfully belongs to the poor (Mishnah Peah 5:6, 7:3) ..."
Cohen, Shaye J. D.
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishnah with Introductions and Notes
(p. 40) Oxford University Press, 2022
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
Your Feedback:
User Comments
Anonymous comments are welcome. All comments are subject to moderation.