Study Bava Metzia folio 106B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
I was worthy. The Talmud concludes: Indeed, this is difficult.
§ It is taught in one baraita: With regard to one who cultivates a field, the first and second time he plants the field again if the crops were destroyed by some mishap, but the third time he is not required to plant it again. And it is taught in another baraita that on the third occasion, he must p
The Talmud clarifies: This baraita is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda HaNasi who says that presumptive status is established by two occasions, while that baraita is in accordance with the opinion of Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, who says that presumptive status is established by 3 occasion
Reish Lakish said: They taught that a cultivator plants a limited number of times only if he planted the field and it sprouted and locusts consumed the crops, but if he planted it and the crops did not sprout at all, the landowner can say to him: You should continue planting it on all the days that
The Talmud raises an objection to this from a baraita that discusses the verse: “While the earth remains, planting and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). The baraita interprets this verse as referring to 6 seasons of the year: Rabban