## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 303

###### Sifrei Devarim 303:1
[Sifrei Devarim 303:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:1)

**וְנָתַתָּ לַלֵּוִי לַגֵּר לַיָּתוֹם וְלָאַלְמָנָה**, תֵּן לְכָל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד לְפִי חֶלְקוֹ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 26:12) "then you shall give to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow": Give each one his (specific) share.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:2
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**וְאָכְלוּ בִשְׁעָרֶיךָ וְשָׂבֵעוּ**, תֵּן לָהֶם כְּדֵי שָׂבְעָם. מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: אֵין פּוֹחֲתִים לֶעָנִי בַּגֹּרֶן מֵחֲצִי קַב חִטִּים אוֹ קַב שְׂעוֹרִים, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה; רַבִּי אוֹמֵר: חֲצִי קַב.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and they shall eat it in your gates and be sated": Give them as much as they need to satiate them — whence it was ruled: The poor man is given no less in the (allocation of the poor-tithe in the) threshing floor than half a *kav* of wheat or a *kav* of barley. These are the words of R. Yehudah. R. Meir says: a *kav*.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:3
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אָמְרוּ: מִשְׁפַּחַת בֵּית נִבְלָטָה הָיְתָה בִּירוּשָׁלִַם, וְנָתְנוּ לָהֶם חֲכָמִים שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת כִּכְּרֵי כֶסֶף, וְלֹא רָצוּ לְהוֹצִיאָם מִירוּשָׁלַיִם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"in your gates": We are hereby apprised that it is not to be taken outside of Eretz Yisrael. They said: There was a family of the house of Navtalah in Jerusalem, who were given six hundred talents of gold by the sages, and who would not take them outside of Jerusalem.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:4
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(דברים כו יג) **וְאָמַרְתָּ**, בְּכָל לָשׁוֹן.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(*Ibid*. 13) "And you shall say": in any language.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:5
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**לִפְנֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ**, זֶה וִדּוּי מַעֲשֵׂר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"before the L-rd your G-d": This is the *ma'aser* (tithe) confession.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:6
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**בִּעַרְתִּי הַקֹּדֶשׁ מִן הַבַּיִת**, זֶה מַעֲשֵׂר שֵׁנִי וְנֶטַע רְבָעִי.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"I have removed *the holy thing*": This is second-tithe (viz. Vayikra 27:30) and *neta revai* (fruit of the fourth year [viz. Vayikra 19:24]).


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:7
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**וְגַם נְתַתִּיו** לַלֵּוִי, זֶה מַעֲשֵׂר לֵוִי. **וְגַם נְתַתִּיו**, זוֹ תְּרוּמָה וּתְרוּמַת מַעֲשֵׂר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"I have given *it* to the Levite": This is first-tithe. "And I have *also* given it": This is *terumah* and *terumath ma'aser*.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:8
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**לַגֵּר לַיָּתוֹם וְלָאַלְמָנָה**, זֶה מַעְשַׂר עָנִי לֶקֶט שִׁכְחָה וּפֵאָה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵין מְעַכְּבִים אֶת הַוִּידּוּי.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"to the stranger, to the orphan, and to the widow": This is second-tithe, *leket*, *shikchah*, and *peah*, even though their omission in the confession does not invalidate it.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:9
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**מִן הַבַּיִת**, זוֹ חַלָּה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"from the house": This is *challah*.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:10
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דָּבָר אַחֵר **מִן הַבַּיִת**, כֵּיוָן שֶׁהִפְרַשְׁתּוֹ מִן הַבַּיִת אֵין אַתְּ נִזְקָק לוֹ לְכָל דָּבָר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Bamidbar 15:20) Variantly: "from the house": Once it has been removed from the house, nothing further is required.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:11
[Sifrei Devarim 303:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:11)

**כְּכָל מִצְוָתְךָ**, שֶׁאִם הִקְדִּים מַעֲשֵׂר שֵׁנִי לָרִאשׁוֹן אֵין בְּכָךְ כְּלוּם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"according to all of your mitzvah": So that if he gave the second-tithe before the first, he cannot make the confession.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:12
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**אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתָנִי**, לֹא נְתַתִּיו לְמִי שֶׁאֵינוֹ רָאוּי לוֹ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"as You commanded me": I have not given it to one unfit for it.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:13
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**לֹא עָבַרְתִּי מִמִּצְוֹתֶיךָ**, לֹא הִפְרַשְׁתִּי מִמִּין עַל שֶׁאֵינוֹ מִינוֹ, לֹא מִן הַתָּלוּשׁ עַל הַמְחֻבָּר וְלֹא מִן הַמְחֻבָּר עַל הַתָּלוּשׁ, וְלֹא מִן הֶחָדָשׁ עַל הַיָּשָׁן וְלֹא מִן הַיָּשָׁן עַל הֶחָדָשׁ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"I did not depart from Your mitzvoth": I did not tithe from one species for another, nor from the detached (from the ground) to the unattached, nor from the unattached for the attached, nor from the new for the old, nor from the old for the new.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:14
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**וְלֹא שָׁכָחְתִּי**, לֹא שָׁכַחְתִּי מִלְּבָרֵךְ וּמִלְּהַזְכִּיר שִׁמְךָ עָלָיו.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"I did not forget": to bless You and to mention Your name upon it.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:15
[Sifrei Devarim 303:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:15)

(דברים כו יד) **לֹא אָכַלְתִּי בְאֹנִי מִמֶּנּוּ**, הָא אִם אֲכָלוֹ בַּאֲנִינָה אֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לְהִתְוַדּוֹת.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 14) "I did not eat in my mourning of it": If he *had* eaten it in mourning, he could not make the confession.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:16
[Sifrei Devarim 303:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:16)

**וְלֹא בִעַרְתִּי מִמֶּנּוּ בְּטָמֵא**, לֹא שֶׁאֲנִי טָמֵא וְהוּא טָהוֹר וְלֹא שֶׁאֲנִי טָהוֹר וְהוּא טָמֵא.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and I did not consume of it in uncleanliness (*tumah*)": whether it (the tithe) were unclean and I, clean; or it, clean and I, unclean.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:17
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**וְלֹא נָתַתִּי מִמֶּנּוּ לְמֵת**, לֹא לָקַחְתִּי מִמֶּנּוּ אָרוֹן וְתַכְרִיכִים לְמֵת, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר. אָמַר לוֹ רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא: אִם לְמֵת, אַף לְחַי אָסוּר. מַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר **לְמֵת**? שֶׁלֹּא הֶחֱלַפְתִּיו אֲפִלּוּ בְּדָבָר טָהוֹר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and I did not give of it for the dead": I did not take of it for the making of casket and shrouds for the dead. These are the words of R. Eliezer. R. Akiva said: It is forbidden to a living person, how much more so for a dead one! What, then, is the intent of "for the dead"? That I did not exchange it even for something clean (to be used for the dead).


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:18
[Sifrei Devarim 303:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:18)

**שָׁמַעְתִּי בְּקוֹל ה׳ אֱלֹהָי**, וַהֲבֵאתִיו לְבֵית הַבְּחִירָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"I have hearkened to the voice of the L-rd my G-d": I have brought it to the Temple. "I have done according to all that You commanded me": I rejoiced and I rejoiced others therewith. (*Ibid*. 15) "Look down from Your holy abode":


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:19
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**עָשִׂיתִי כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתָנִי**, שָׂמַחְתִּי וְשִׂמַּחְתִּי בוֹ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
We have done (with respect to the tithes) what you decreed upon us — *You* do what you have promised us.


###### Sifrei Devarim 303:20
[Sifrei Devarim 303:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/303:20)

(דברים כו טו) **הַשְׁקִיפָה מִמְּעוֹן קָדְשְׁךָ**, עָשִׂינוּ מַה שֶּׁגָּזַרְתָּ עָלֵינוּ, עֲשֵׂה עִמָּנוּ מַה שֶּׁהִבְטַחְתָּנוּ: **הַשְׁקִיפָה מִמְּעוֹן קָדְשְׁךָ מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבָרֵךְ אֶת עַמְּךָ** וְכוּ׳.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"Look down from Your holy abode, from the heavens and bless your people, Israel" (with sons and with daughters. "and the land which You have given us" (with dew and rain and offspring of beasts". "just as You swore unto our fathers a land flowing with milk and honey": so that it impart a flavor to the fruits. From here it was ruled: Israelites and *mamzerim* confess (over the tithes) and not freed slaves, for they have no portion in the land. R. Meir says: Neither do Cohanim and Levites confess, for they took no portion in the land. R. Yossi says: They have cities with open spaces.