סוכה 39 — parallel

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‘Moses! Do you speak aright? The fact is that both here and there, it is the conclusion of the clause and the pause does not matter’.) Raba ruled, One should not say, ‘May His great Name’ and then [pause and] say, ‘be blessed’ but ‘May His great Name be blessed’ all together. R. Safra said to him, ‘Moses! Do you speak aright? The fact is that both here and there it is the conclusion of the clause and the pause does not matter’. WHERE THE CUSTOM OBTAINS TO REPEAT. It was taught, Rabbi used to repeat [certain] words in it; R. Eleazar b. Perata used to augment [certain] words in it. What is meant by ‘augment’? — Abaye explained, He augmented the doubling beginning with ‘I will give thanks unto Thee’ to the end of the Psalm. [WHERE THE CUSTOM OBTAINS] TO RECITE THE BENEDICTION, HE SHOULD RECITE THE BENEDICTION. Abaye explained, This was taught only with regard to the concluding benediction, but with regard to the preceding benediction, it is a positive commandment to say it, for Rab Judah citing Samuel ruled, With all commandments the benediction is to be recited ‘ober [prior] to their performance. And whence do we know that the word ‘ober means prior? — R. Nahman b. Isaac replied, Since it is written, Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain and he overran the Cushite. Abaye said the inference is from the following verse. And he himself passed over before them. And if you wish, you may infer from the verse, And their king is passed on before them, and the Lord at the head of them. MISHNAH. IF A MAN PURCHASE A LULAB FROM HIS FELLOW IN THE SABBATICAL YEAR THE LATTER SHOULD GIVE HIM THE ETHROG AS A GIFT, SINCE ONE IS NOT PERMITTED TO PURCHASE IT IN THE SABBATICAl YEAR. GEMARA. What is the position if the other is unwilling to give him it as a gift? — R. Huna replied, He should include the price of the ethrog in that of the palm-branch. But why should he not pay him directly? — Because one must not hand over money for fruit of the Sabbatical Year to an ‘am ha-arez. For it has been taught, A man must not hand over money to an ‘am ha-arez for fruit of the Sabbatical Year more than is sufficient for three meals, but if he handed [him] over [more] he should say, ‘This money shall be exchanged for [the ordinary] fruit which I have in my house’34

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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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