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However, with regard to those people who harvest the crop before the omer is sacrificed, they act contrary to the will of the rabbis. This is the statement of R' Meir. The concern is that while working with the grain they might come to eat from it, despite the fact that it is still prohibited. R'
Abaye said to him: This works out well in explaining R' Yehuda’s opinion with regard to the time when one is picking the grain; however, with regard to the time of grinding and sifting, what can be said? Apparently, it is permitted to perform these acts in a typical manner. Why, then, is there no
The Talmud raises another difficulty: However, with regard to that which we learned in a Mishnah: One may harvest grain from a field that requires irrigation and from fields in the valleys, as their grain ripens long before the omer is sacrificed, but one may not pile the produce, and the Talmud a
Rather, Abaye said: This difference between the cases of the omer and leaven is not based on the manner in which one harvests, grinds, or sifts. Instead, the reason for the different rulings is that from new grain, one distances himself, as it is prohibited to eat the new grain all year until the
Rava said: Is the contradiction between one statement of R' Yehuda and the other statement of R' Yehuda difficult, while the contradiction between one statement of the Rabbis and the other statement of the Rabbis is not difficult? There is also an apparent contradiction between the opinion of the