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Pe'ah (Hebrew: פֵּאָה, lit. "Corner") is the second tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. It is concerned mainly with the "corner" of their produce, and other parts of their field that Jews are required to reserve for the poor in accordance with Lev. 19:9 and Lev. 23:22.There are few categories of gifts to the poor mentioned, the first is "leket" which is individual droppings of grain while being collected, this is same for dropped grapes and olives but the name for them is different. Another group is called "shelet" which less than two large bundles of grain. All these droppings of grain are gifts for the poor. It consists of eight chapters and has a Gemara ("Completion") from only the Jerusalem Talmud. Like most of the other tractates from Zeraim, the rabbis who redacted the Babylonian Talmud did not see a reason to discuss these laws as they only apply if one lives in the Land of Israel.
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