Study Rosh Hashanah folio 13A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
But perhaps the verse is referring to produce that did not grow at all during the 7th year, and nevertheless, God states in the Torah that all the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year continue to apply until the festival of Sukkot of the 8th year.
The Talmud answers: It should not enter your mind to say this, as it is written: “And the festival of gathering, which is at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field” (Exodus 23:16). What is the meaning of “gathering”? If we say that it means: A Festival that come
Rather, what is meant here by “gathering”? It means harvesting. And the rabbis have an accepted tradition that any grain that reaches full growth so that it is harvested on the festival of Sukkot is known to have reached 1/3rd of its growth before Rosh HaShana, and the Torah calls that period of th
§ R' Yirmeya said to R' Zeira: And are the rabbis able to discern precisely between produce that reached 1/3rd of its growth and produce that reached less than 1/3rd of its growth? R' Zeira said to him: Do I not always tell you that you must not take yourself out of the bounds of the halakha? All th
For example: one who immerses himself in a mikveh containing 40 se’a of water is rendered pure, but in 40 se’a less the tiny amount of a kortov, he cannot immerse and become pure in them. Similarly, an egg-bulk of impure food can render other food ritually impure, but an egg-bulk less even the ti