3,406. Planning to Eat in the Courtyard

Hilchos Maaser 4:12

Peddlers who travel through villages and pass through one courtyard to the next may continue to snack from their produce until they reach the house where they will lodge for the night.

Hilchos Maaser 4:13

Let’s say that someone brought figs from the field intending to eat them in a courtyard that doesn’t obligate them in tithes, but he absent-mindedly brought them into his house. In such a case, he may remove them from his home and snack on them. The same is true if he forgot and brought the figs to his roof (which would normally obligate them in tithes); he may snack on the figs while on the roof. If he brought them home in order to eat them on the roof and he brought them into another person’s courtyard, the figs must be tithed and he may not eat them until he does so.