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They would permit the use of consecrated branches of carob and of sycamore trees; they would make breaches in the walls of their gardens and orchards, in order to feed fallen fruit to the poor during drought years on Shabbatot and Festivals; and they would designate for the poor the produce in the c
The Talmud responds: And according to your reasoning, why did the baraita say that the residents of Jericho performed 6 actions without the approval of the rabbis? Counting the cases listed in the baraita, there were in fact 7 actions, as reaping and piling count as two actions. Evidently, the text
§ The Mishnah teaches: One may reap crops in any field for fodder and feed it to an animal even before the omer offering. The Talmud notes that we learned in a Mishnah there (Pe’a 2:1): And these divide a field for the purpose of pe’a, i.e., the presence of any of these separates a field so that ea
In all of the aforementioned instances a field is considered divided into two distinct fields. Another type of separation is subject to dispute: And in the case of one who reaps crops in a field for fodder, this action also divides a field in two. This is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis sa
With regard to the opinion of R' Meir, Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that R' Yoḥanan says: R' Meir said his statement in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, who says in the Mishnah: One may reap and feed the crops to animals even after they reached 1/3rd of their potential growth. Apparently, R' Sh