Дварим 14:29 Комментарий: Rashi, Siftei Chakhamim, Rav Hirsch & Sifrei Devarim

ובא הלוי AND THE LEVITE SHALL COME and take the “First Tithe” which you have failed to give him,

And take the first tithe. This verse is abridged. For without adding, “...and take the first tithe,” it seems that the Levite, proselyte, orphan, and widow are treated equally; that you are to give them [enough] food to eat their fill.

V. 29. ובא הלוי entweder als voraussetzlich mittellos auch zum מעשר עני berechtigt, oder es wird hier zugleich das ja jedes Jahr für den לוי auszuscheidende מעשר ראשון mit eingeschlossen.

והגר והיתום AND THE STRANGER AND THE FATHERLESS [SHALL COME] and take the “Second Tithe”, which belongs to the poor in that year, and you shall not eat it yourself in Jerusalem, as you were bound to eat the “Second Tithe” of the first two years,

ואכלו ושבעו AND THEY SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED — Give them sufficient to satisfy them. From here they (the Rabbis) derived the law: one must give the poor in the barn no less than half a kab of wheat or a kab of barley (Sifrei Devarim 110:3). As for you, go up to Jerusalem with the tithe (i.e. מעשר שני) of the first and the second years which thou hast delayed, and make the confession there: “I have removed the hallowed things from the house” — as it is stated in the section beginning with the words כי תכלה לעשר (Deuteronomy 26:12).