Despair (abandonment) that is not conscious - Something that in a standard case is abandoned when he knows that it fell from him; but when [the finder] found it, the owners did not yet know that it fell from them.

Is not [considered] despair (abandonment) - Their argument will be explained in its continuation.

That he ultimately despairs (abandons it) - after this one finds it. And the principle of abandonment is such as when he says, "Woe is me for the monetary loss" - as he reveals his thinking that he has despaired about [reclaiming] them.

In a prohibited [manner] that it came into his possession - For it is something that is not prone to be abandoned.

By the tide (zuto) of the sea - Places on the seashore, where it is the way of the sea to return [to the shore] ten or fifteen parsa twice a day, so it sweeps away that which it finds there and goes. Zuto is an expression of largeness and expansion in the Greek language; like the sages wrote [in their Greek translation] to King Ptolemy, "and upon the exalted ones" (Exodus 24:11), [as] "and upon the zatuti" (Megillah 9a).

Or by the flooding (sheluliyato) of a river - when it expanded and overflows its banks and takes booty (sholel shelal) and sweeps away that which is found.

The Merciful One permits it - and even when it comes to the finder before abandonment [by its original owner].

Below - in our discussion, "From where do we know that a lost object swept away by a river, etc."

From now, that he despairs (it is abandoned) - For behold, it fell; and when he knows, his mind will no longer be upon it.

That is a deliberate loss - As it did not fall from him, and he knowingly placed them down [to be] ownerless.

Prone to feel - So before this one finds it, it is known to the owners that they fell and they abandon it.

Are heavy (literally, weighty) - A load that is heavy.

"Elderly people who walk [with] a cane - Poor elderly men walk slowly with their canes, so they see each and every sheaf. And the expression, nemushot, is like [its usage], "shall not depart (yamushu)" (Isaiah 59:21) - since they feel and [then] they go.

The gleaners after the gleaners - The expression, nemushot, is like [its usage], "not feel (yamish)" (Exodus 13:22) - as they take and feel everything from in front of them.

And why - if abandonment without awareness is not [considered] abandonment.

Given that - concerning the poor people from here, it is abandonment with awareness; since they saw the nemushot walked through it. But the poor of another city do not yet know - so how is it that we are permitted it. Rather it is because their abandonment, when they do know, is [considered] abandonment from the time [the nemushot] left it. So it was permissible when it came to the hand of this one.

Dried figs - Figs that are cut off with a scalpel, such that their sap flows out; and we spread them out on the field to dry.

And even in the side of a field of dried figs - A field in which we spread out figs to dry, as he knows that they came from them.

Permitted [regarding] robbery - Even though he did not know when they fell; since once he will know, he will abandon [them], the abandonment is from now - like Rava.

Exempt from tithes - like the law of ownerless property. As ownerless property is exempt form tithes.

In [the case of] olives or of carobs, it is prohibited - like Abbaye.

Granted, the first clause [to] Abbaye - he can find to answer, that he knew from the beginning - as it continues to explain.

As it teaches, olives or carobs are prohibited - And you would think it is because they are not prone to fall and it cannot be said that [the finder] knew that [the owner] abandoned [them]. So even though once he will know, he will abandon [them], it is not [considered] abandonment from now.

Its appearance proves about it - It is known whose it is from its appearance. Hence once its owner knows that it fell, he will not abandon [it]. For he will surely say, "Everyone knows that they are mine and they are not ownerless, so they will not take them."

Becomes disgusting with its fall - Hence since he know that they fall, he abandons [them] from the beginning because of [their] disgust. As from when it falls, it is not significant to him and he renders it ownerless.