Editing Peah (section)

== Beginning and End of the Tractate ==
At the beginning of the tractate is the well-known Mishnah concerning "These are the things for which a person eats their fruits in this world while the principal remains for the World to Come." According to the Rambam's explanation, this refers to mitzvot where one is good to people and good to Heaven. Therefore, unlike other mitzvot where the principal only remains for the World to Come, with these mitzvot, because they are good for people, one also eats their fruits in this world.

The tractate concludes with the statement that anyone who needs to take from charity but does not take will not die of old age until they support others from their own resources, as it is stated, "Blessed is the man who trusts in Hashem, and Hashem will be his trust."

According to certain versions, there is an additional section about a judge who judges truthfully and its opposite, and the commentators have already struggled with this according to the well-known principle that one should end with something good, offering explanations and refuting them.

In practice, in the Mishnah book that according to tradition was copied from the Rambam's handwriting, the Mishnah ends with "anyone who needs to take but does not take," while the other part is from a baraita that was mistakenly inserted.