וַיִּקְרָ֨א מֹשֶׁ֜ה לִֽיהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו לְעֵינֵ֣י כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֘ל חֲזַ֣ק וֶאֱמָץ֒ כִּ֣י אַתָּ֗ה תָּבוֹא֙ אֶת־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֶל־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֧ע יְהוָ֛ה לַאֲבֹתָ֖ם לָתֵ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם וְאַתָּ֖ה תַּנְחִילֶ֥נָּה אוֹתָֽם׃
Alors Moïse appela Josué, et lui dit en présence de tout Israël: "Sois fort et vaillant! Car c’est toi qui entreras avec ce peuple dans le pays que l’Éternel a juré à leurs pères de leur donner, et c’est toi qui leur en feras le partage.
Jerusalem Talmud Maaser Sheni
It is written (Deut. 14:28): “At the end of three years you shall take out all tithe of your produce, in that year, and deposit it in your gates.” I could think that once in a Sabbatical cycle you have to distribute the tithes including the tithe of the poor76The tithe of the poor is mentioned separately since the paragraph in question introduces the tithe of the poor.. The verse says “at the end of three years,” once in three years and not once in seven; i. e., in the third and the seventh77This formulation is inconsistent. It must either be the 3rd and the 6th year for the obligation of tithes, or the 4th and the 7th which are finally determined to be the times of delivery., twice in a Sabbatical cycle. Do I understand at New Year’s Day, that on New Year’s Day you have to distribute the tithes including the tithe of the poor? The verse says “at the end of three years.” “At the end” means at its conclusion you remove, you do not remove on New Year’s Day. If it is at the end of the year, I could understand that at the beginning of the fourth you have to remove the tithes including the tithe of the poor; the verse says (Deut. 26:12): “If you have finished tithing [all tithe of]78In the masoretic text, missing in the quote. your produce,” when you have tithed all your fruits. 79From here on, including the tannaitic parts of the next two paragraphs, a similar text is in Sifry Deut. §109; in very shortened form also §302. If it is when you have tithed all your fruits, could I understand even on Ḥanukkah80Since Ḥanukkah is not connected with the agricultural year and is not a biblical holiday, its mention does not make much sense, in particular because the tithing year for trees and their fruits ends only on the 14th of Ševaṭ, more than a month and a half after the start of Ḥanukkah. The 15th of Ševaṭ is mentioned as “New Year of trees” in Mishnah Roš Haššanah 1:2; in the opinion of the House of Shammai it is the first of Ševaṭ. This indetermination in itself disqualifies the New Year of trees as a biblical date. The discussion of the date is in Roš Haššanah 1:2 (fol. 57a), Babli 14a.? It says here, “at the end of;” it says further (Deut. 26:12): “At the end81In the biblical text, מקץ not מקצה. of seven years, on the fixed time of the Sabbatical year, on the festival of booths.” Since “at the end” there means at a fixed time, so here also at a fixed time. Since there “at the end” means the holiday of booths, does it here also mean the holiday of booths? The verse says “if you have finished tithing all tithe of your produce,” when you have finished tithing all of your fruits? On Passover of the fourth year82Since this is the first biblical holiday after the end of tithing fruits of the preceding year..