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סוכה 39:2
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
and [the purchaser] eats the fruit [as though it has] the sanctity of the Sabbatical Year. This however, applies only where one buys from what is hefker, but if one buys from protected produce it is forbidden [to buy] even for as little as half an issar. R. Shesheth objected, And [if a man buys] from what is hefker [may he pay, you say, for] three meals and no more? I will point out contradictions: Rue, asparagus, fenugreek, coriander of the mountains, water-parsley and meadow-eruca are always exempt from tithe and may be bought from anyone in the Sabbatical Year, since the like of these is not guarded. He raised the objection and he himself replied to it: They taught [that only as much as is] sufficient for one's food [may be bought]. And so said Rabbah b. bar Hana in the name of R. Johanan. They taught [that only as much as is] sufficient for food [may be bought]. (How do we know that ‘man’ means food? — Since it is written, And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's food.) But if so, the lulab also [should not be bought]? — The lulab is a product of the sixth year which entered the seventh. But if so, is not the ethrog also a product of the sixth year which entered the seventh? — In the case of the ethrog we compute from the time of its gathering. But surely, both R. Gamaliel and R. Eliezer agree that as regards the Sabbatical Year we compute the year of the ethrog from its time of blossoming, as we have learnt, The ethrog is like a tree in three respects, and like a vegetable in one. It is like a tree in three respects, as regards the laws of ‘orlah, of the Fourth Year, and of the Seventh Year; and like a vegetable in one respect
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