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is exclusive of the expense of processing the olives to produce oil.
§ The Mishnah teaches: In the event that a river swept away one’s olive trees and deposited them in the field of another, and they took root there and yielded olives, then the olives are divided between the owner of the trees and the owner of the field. Ulla says that Reish Lakish says: They taught
But during the first 3 years after the trees took root in the new field, everything that grows is the property of the owner of the olive trees, as he can say to the owner of the field: Even if you had planted the trees yourself at the time that they took root in your field, would you have eaten the
The Talmud asks: But let the owner of the field say to him: If I had uprooted your trees from my field and instead planted my own trees, then after 3 years I could have consumed all of the olives yielded by them. Now that I let your trees remain and so you have a right to consume half with me, in r
The Talmud suggests another interpretation: Rather, when Ravin came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia he said in the name of Reish Lakish: They taught this only about a case where the olive trees were uprooted and relocated together with their clods of earth in which they grew, and the ruling is with