Jastrow: פֵּאָה

פֵּאָה, פֵּי׳ f. (b. h.; פאה to split, divide; v. Ges. H. Dict.12 s. v.) section, segment, corner.—Pl. פֵּאוֹת, פֵּי׳. Erub. 51ᵃ (ref. to Num. XXXV, 5) פ׳ כתיבן the text speaks of corners (angular additions); ib. לזה אתה נותן פ׳ אין אתה נותן פ׳ וכ׳ for this purpose (the definition of suburbs) you allow corners to be included (i.e. square measurements), but you must not allow corners to those appointing a Sabbath center (שְׁבִיתָה), i.e. you must allow them to walk only within a circle the radius of which is two thousand cubits. Ib. 11ᵃ בארבע פ׳ השדה Ar. (ed. פינות) in the four corners of the field; a. e.—Esp. 1) פְּאַת ראש the hair on the temples; פאת זקן the hair on the chin. Macc. III, 5 המקיף פ׳ ראשו והמשחית פ׳ זקנו (v. Lev. XIX, 27) he who cuts off (shaves) the hair of his temples and destroys the hair of his chins; expl. ib. 20ᵇ פאת ראשו סוף ראשו וכ׳ the peah of his head means cutting the tail-end of the hair of his head … making his temples as smooth as the spot behind the ear and as the forehead; פאת זקנו סוף זקנו וכ׳ the peah of his chin means the pointed ends of his chin &c., v. שִׁיבּוֹלֶת; Sifra K’dosh., Par. 3, ch. VI; a. e.—In gen. curls; פ׳ נכרית strange (false) curls, wig. Sabb. VI, 5. Naz. 28ᵇ; a. e. —2) (פאת שדה) the corner of the field, the portion of the harvest left for the poor, peah (Lev. XIX, 9 sq.) Sifra K’dosh., Par. 1, ch. I פטור מן הלקט … והפ׳ is exempt from the duty of leaving for the poor the gleanings, the forgotten sheaf, and the corner. Ib. חייבים בפ׳ are subject to peah. Ib. אין פ׳ אלא מחמת הכילוי וכ׳ the title of peah comes only through the finishing (of the cutting of the field, i.e. if one left a plot uncut in the middle of a field, the poor cannot take it, before the field is entirely cut), and only when it has a name (has been designated by the owner as the poor man’s share), and the real peah is only that which is left at the end (i.e. he who has left a plot in the middle, must also leave a corner); ib. נתן בתחילה הרי זו פ׳ if he left a portion on beginning to cut or in the middle, it is peah (belongs to the poor, and is exempt from tithes &c.); Peah I, 3; a. v. fr. —3) (transf.) braid, vines plaited together so as to form a cover or a partition. Tosef. Kil. IV, 5 אם היו קנים מדוקרנין עושה אותן פ׳ מלמעלה ומותר if forked reeds were standing there, he forms a plait above, and it is permitted (it forms a partition with regard to mixed seeds); Erub. 11ᵇ. Y. Kil. IV, 29ᵇ מציל משום פ׳ it saves (makes the place marked off by reeds a partitioned field) the same as a garland of vines. Ib. הדא פ׳ מה את וכ׳ what do you mean by that peah? do you mean overhead, or on the side? Ib. bot. הפ׳ אינה וכ׳ the ‘plait’ does not save (is not considered a partition), unless it is solidly joined on four sides. Ib. פ׳ מהו שתציל בסוכה do intertwined vines form a partition with regard to Succah (to be considered a wall)?; Y. Succ. I, 52ᵃ bot. Erub. l. c. top פ׳ מותרת לענין כלאים וכ׳ (Ms. M. פ׳ קליעית קליעית, being a gloss to פ׳; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) ‘braids’ form a partition with regard to mixed seeds, but not with regard to Sabbath laws; a. fr.—Peah, name of a treatise of Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud Y’rushalmi, of the Order of Z’raʿim.