From cutting trees — to picking their fruit
Shemittah fruit is hefker
anyone may come and take it
Kedushas Shevi'is: it is for eating — not to waste
Wine overflowing at Havdalah?a question with Shemittah wine
Two pesukim
“…for you to eat”Vayikra 25:6
“…you shall eat its produce”Vayikra 25:12
Figs: from when may they be eaten in Shemittah?
picked too early, the fruit is wasted
Pagimfigs not yet ripe
Once they change color: eat them with bread, in the field
Permissiveone may eat
→ not wasting Shemittah fruitworkers ate them so
Nearly ripe: gather them into the house
Permissivehe may bring [them]
In the other six years: ma'aser from that same stage
Restrictiveone is liable
Most fruit: a third grownfigs: later
Sheviis 4:7
When You May Eat Sheviis Figs
פַּגֵּי שְׁבִיעִית
מֵאֵימָתַי אוֹכְלִין פֵּרוֹת הָאִילָן בַּשְּׁבִיעִית,
הַפַּגִּים מִשֶּׁיַּזְרִיחוּ, אוֹכֵל בָּהֶם פִּתּוֹ בַּשָּׂדֶה.
בִּחֲלוּ, כּוֹנֵס לְתוֹךְ בֵּיתוֹ.
וְכֵן כַּיּוֹצֵא בָהֶם בִּשְׁאָר שְׁנֵי שָׁבוּעַ, חַיָּב בַּמַּעַשְׂרוֹת: