3,225. A Jewish Sharecropper in Syria

Terumos 1:16

Let’s say that someone buys land in Syria with the produce still attached. If it reached the stage where tithes must be taken while still in the possession of a non-Jew, it is exempt. If it didn’t reach that stage while still in the non-Jew’s possession, then the Jewish buyer must take tithes because he bought the produce with the land.

Terumos 1:17

If a Jew works as a sharecropper for a non-Jew in Syria, he need not take tithes from his produce because he doesn’t own the land. If a non-Jew buys land in Syria, it is exempt from tithes, as has already been discussed. The same is true if one rents a field on the condition that the rental fee is to be paid in produce, works as a sharecropper paying his rent with crops, or rents a field from a non-Jew in Syria for cash: in all of these cases, he need not separate terumos and maaseros.