Study Bava Metzia folio 87B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
not at the time of the completion of its work, i.e., while it is still growing; and a laborer who works with produce detached from the ground after the completion of its work, when it is sufficiently processed and therefore subject to tithes; and a laborer who works with an item whose growth is no
Talmud: The Talmud asks: From where are these matters, that a laborer may eat from produce attached to the ground, derived? The Talmud answers: As it is written: “When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you have enough at your own pleasure; but you shall not put
The Talmud answers: We derive it from a comparison to the case of a vineyard: Just as a vineyard is unique in that it is an entity whose growth is from the ground, and the laborer eats from it at the time of the completion of its work, i.e., when he is harvesting the grapes, so too with regard to a
The Talmud challenges this derivation: What is notable about a vineyard? It is notable in that the owner of a vineyard is obligated in the mitzva of olelot, the obligation to leave incomplete clusters of grapes for the poor (see Leviticus 19:10). Accordingly, one should not be able to derive the h
The Talmud responds: What is notable about standing grain? It is notable in that the owner of dough prepared from grain is obligated in the mitzva of ḥalla. The Talmud asks an incidental question: And from where do you know that this standing grain mentioned in the verse is the same standing grain