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It is like a vegetable in that at the time of its picking it is tithed; this is the statement of Rabban Gamliel. If it was picked in the 3rd year of the Sabbatical cycle, poor man’s tithe is separated although it ripened in the 2nd year, when the obligation is to separate second tithe and not poor
The Talmud answers: It was the tanna of the Mishnah that distinguishes between the lulav and the etrog who stated his opinion in accordance with the statement of that tanna, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Yosei said that Avtolemos, one of the rabbis, testified in the name of 5 Elders: The st
The Talmud questions the formulation of the baraita: With regard to the Sabbatical Year, who mentioned it? As no previous mention was made of the Sabbatical Year, the discussion of the status of an etrog during the Sabbatical Year is a non sequitur. The Talmud answers: The baraita is incomplete, an
§ The Talmud resumes its discussion of the Mishnah: The reason that a lulav may be purchased from an am ha’aretz during the Sabbatical Year is specifically that it is a lulav of the 6th year that is entering the 7th. This indicates by inference that a lulav of the 7th year is sacred with the sancti
The Talmud answers: It is different there, in the case of the reed and vine leaves, as the verse states: “And the Sabbatical produce of the land shall be for you for food” (Leviticus 25:6). From the juxtaposition of the term: For you, and the term: For food, it is derived: For you is similar to fo