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Until when may a grain-field be ploughed in the sixth year? Until the moisture has dried up in the soil; or as long as men still plough in order to plant cucumbers and gourds. Said R. Simeon in this case you are placing the Law in the hands of each man? No; [the prescribed period] in the case of a grain-field is until Passover, and in the case of an orchard, till Pentecost. |
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| Beds of cucumbers and gourds may be manured and hoed until the New Year; so, too, may fields that must be irrigated. One may remove parasitic excrescences from trees, strip off leaves, cover roots with powder, and fumigate plants. R. Simeon [T4] says one may also remove leaves from a grape cluster even in the Seventh Year itself. |
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שביעית 2.2 מזבלין ומעדרין במקשיות ובמדלעות, עד ראש השנה; וכן בבית השלהים׃ מייבלין מפרקין מאבקין ומעשנין, עד ראש השנה׃ רבי שמעון אומר, אף נוטל הוא את העלה מן האשכול בשביעית. |
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