SECT. VII. The Streets of Ierusalem.
t 1.1 THE Streets of Jerusalem were swept every day. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Hence The monies that were found in Jerusalem before those that bought Cattel, are always tenths. The monies found in the Mount of the Temple are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 prophane, or common. In Jerusalem on other days of the year they are common, but in the time of the Feasts, they are all Tenths. But saith R. Shemaia, Upon what reason is this? When the Streets of Jerusalem are swept every day.
The Gloss writes thus, They are always tenths: both in the time of the feasts, and in the time when there are no feals. But monies found in the mount of the Temple were com∣mon, even in the time of the feasts. For it is supposed, those monies fell from them, (or were lost) in the mount of the Temple, and thereupon they are common. But why were they tenths in Jerusalem in the time of the Feasts? And why is it not said, that they had fallen from them there before the Feast, as we say of the mount of the Temple? Because the streets of Jerusalem were swept every day; and if monies had been lost there before the Feast, they who swept the streets, had found them before. But the mount of the Temple had no need to be swept every day: for dirt and dust remained not there, because the mount was shelving: and moreover it was not lawful for any to enter there with his shoes, or with dust on his feet.
I cannot omit what he saith besides. Much of the flesh which was eaten at Jerusalem (in the time of the Feasts) was of (the second) tithes. For scarce any one tarried there until he had eaten all his tithes; but he gave the monies of the tithes either to the poor, or to his friends in the City. And for the most part with the monies of the Tithes they bought their thank▪ offerings.