Perek 8: using Shemittah produce
the way it is meant to be used
“For you to eat — and for your animals”
Vayikra 25:6for you, your servants, your hired worker
Vayikra 25:7and for your animals, and the wild beasts
Another “great rule”
General ruleA great rule they stated
Food for people: no poultice — not for a person, surely not an animal
Restrictiveone may not make
→ no poultice
Melugmachewed food pressed on a wound
Restrictiveand needless to say, not for an animal.
Not people-food: a poultice for a person — not for an animal
Permissiveone may make
→ for a person, yes
Restrictivenot for an animal.
→ not for an animal
Meant for both: the stringencies of both
Restrictiveone imposes on it the stringencies of [both] human [food] and animal [food].
No poultice — and no cookinganimals eat it raw (Yerushalmi)
Meant for firewood? Then it is wood
Permissiveit is like firewood,
→ no kedushas Shevi'is
Savory · hyssop · thyme
Sheviis 8:1
Using Produce as Intended
הַמְיֻחָד לְמַאֲכַל אָדָם
כְּלָל גָּדוֹל אָמְרוּ בַּשְּׁבִיעִית,
כָּל הַמְיֻחָד לְמַאֲכַל אָדָם,
אֵין עוֹשִׂין מִמֶּנּוּ מְלוּגְמָא לָאָדָם,
וְאֵין צָרִיךְ לוֹמַר לַבְּהֵמָה.
וְכָל שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְיֻחָד לְמַאֲכַל אָדָם,
עוֹשִׂין מִמֶּנּוּ מְלוּגְמָא לְאָדָם,
אֲבָל לֹא לִבְהֵמָה.
וְכָל שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְיֻחָד לֹא לְמַאֲכַל אָדָם וְלֹא לְמַאֲכַל בְּהֵמָה,
חָשַׁב עָלָיו לְמַאֲכַל אָדָם וּלְמַאֲכַל בְּהֵמָה,
נוֹתְנִין עָלָיו חֻמְרֵי אָדָם וְחֻמְרֵי בְהֵמָה.
חָשַׁב עָלָיו לְעֵצִים,
הֲרֵי הוּא כְעֵצִים,
כְּגוֹן הַסִּיאָה וְהָאֵזוֹב וְהַקּוֹרָנִית: