How the Uncircumcised Is Barred From the Heave-Offering

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 212:1

It has been taught: Rabbi Eliezer says: How do we know that an uncircumcised man does not eat of the heave-offering? "Sojourner and hired servant" is said regarding the Passover, and "sojourner and hired servant" is said regarding the heave-offering (Leviticus 22:10); just as the "sojourner and hired servant" stated regarding the Passover means the uncircumcised is forbidden it, so too the "sojourner and hired servant" stated regarding the heave-offering means the uncircumcised is forbidden it. Rabbi Akiva says: This is unnecessary; behold it says "any man whatsoever" (Leviticus 22:4) to include the uncircumcised. The master said: Rabbi Eliezer says, "sojourner and hired servant" is stated [and it is] set free [for analogy], for if it were not set free one could refute it: what of the Passover, which is more stringent in that one is liable concerning it for refused-offering, leftover, and impurity? In what way is it set free? If it is set free on the side of the heave-offering, [the terms] are needed there, for it has been taught: "Sojourner" is one acquired as a permanent acquisition; "hired servant" is one acquired as an acquisition of years. Let Scripture say "sojourner" and not say "hired servant," and I would say: one acquired permanently does not eat, and one acquired for years all the more so. Were it so, I would say a "sojourner" is one acquired for years, but one acquired permanently eats; the "hired servant" came and taught concerning the "sojourner" that even though acquired permanently he does not eat. Rather, the Passover term is set free. If you say, just as with the Passover an onen is forbidden, so too with the heave-offering an onen is forbidden, Scripture says "and every stranger" (Leviticus 22:10): I told you strangeness and not acute mourning. Say it also means not uncircumcision? Behold it is written "sojourner and hired servant." And what did you see [to include uncircumcision]? It is reasonable that uncircumcision should be included, for it lacks an act, and the act is in one's own body, and it is punishable by excision, and it was already in force before the giving of the Torah, and the circumcision of one's males and servants is indispensable for it.

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