3,226. Buying Land in Syria

Terumos 1:18

Let’s say that a Jew buys a field from a non-Jew in Syria before the crops reach a third of their growth. He then sells it to a non-Jew after the crops reach a third of their growth. If another Jew then buys the field, he must take terumos and maaseros because the field reached the stage of obligation while possessed by a Jew.

Terumos 1:19

Let’s say that a Jew owns land in Syria. He hires a sharecropper, who sends him some produce. In such a case, he need not tithe the produce because it’s possible that the produce he was sent was purchased in the marketplace. This is only the case when the species he was sent can be found in the marketplace.