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HALAKHAH: “One who robbed from a proselyte,” etc. Ḥilfai and Rebbi Yose bar Ḥanina said, this is Rebbi Yose the Galilean’s, as Rebbi Yose the Galiean explained: Of what does the verse speak? About one who robbed from a proselyte, swore to him, who then died, that he would pay the capital and the fifth to the priests and the reparation offering to the altar. “If the man have no relative,” he who needs atonement is obligated; this excludes the one who does not need atonement. Rebbi Aqiba explained when he came from Zephyrium¹²⁰Possibly the town in Cyprus (Cape Paphos).: About one who robbed from a proselyte, swore to him, who then died, that he would pay the capital and the fifth to the priests and the reparation offering to the altar, as it is said: “If the man have no relative,” etc. The only person in Israel who has no relative is the proselyte. Rav and Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, it is Rebbi Aqiba’s who said that the wrongly acquired property has to be returned in any case¹²¹The paragraph is elliptic; its meaning can be ascertained from the parallels in the Babli 109a, Tosephta 10:16,17, Sifry Num. #4 (Num. rabba8(7), Yalquṭ #701). Both R. Yose the Galilean and R. Aqiba agree that “the man without relative” must be a proselyte who failed to start a Jewish family. (In Sifry, this statement is attributed to R. Ismael.) The rules of inheritance imply that the property of the deceased proselyte becomes ownerless; therefore anything held by another person at the proselyte’s death becomes property of the holder. If the robber confessed his guilt after the proselyte’s death, the money becomes the Eternal’s property Who gives it to the priests. If the robber confessed his guilt to the proselyte, even if the proselyte agrees to payment at a later date, turning the debt into a loan, when he dies the robber does not acquire the money since he cannot atone for his guilt as long as the money is in his hand. If the robber dies before he returned the money, for R. Yose the Galilean the money becomes part of the robber’s estate since the dead “do not need atonement.” R. Aqiba holds that the money does not become part of the estate since “wrongly acquired property has to be returned in any case,” and the heirs have to turn the money over to the priests. Sifry notes that R. Aqiba agreed with R. Yose the Galilean before he went to Zephyrium but there changed his opinion. (The Tosephta attributes R. Yose the Galilean’s argument to R. Aqiba)..