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1/4th-kav or more of seeds of a different type, i.e., 1/24th of the mixture is a type of seed other than the main type, one must reduce the other type of seeds in the mixture by uprooting the shoots.
With regard to the halakha that inspectors must go out and uproot the shoots of diverse kinds of seeds that grew in the fields, the Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita that the rabbis ordained that they should pronounce the crop of the entire field in which diverse kinds was found ownerles
The Talmud explains this ordinance as it is taught in another baraita: At first, the agents of the court would uproot the diverse kinds and cast them before the livestock belonging to the owners of the fields. However, the property holders would rejoice for two reasons: One, that the agents of the
The rabbis, therefore, ordained that the agents of the court should uproot the diverse kinds and cast them on the roads. Yet the property holders would still greatly rejoice that the agents of the court weeded their fields free of charge. Finally, the rabbis ordained that they should pronounce the
Mishnah: R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov says: In a field that is filled with trees, one may draw water via channels from one tree to another tree on the intermediate days of a Festival because trees are in dire need of water. And this is permitted provided that in doing so he does not water the entire fie