Why divide the lands?
Eat in each land until the last of it there is gone
Permissiveeat
The latest spot in the region counts for all of it
Rabbi Shimon: three lands only in Yehuda
Tanna KammaSo that in each land they keep eating until the last of that land's produce is gone — the latest sub-region carries the whole land→ each land, by its own latest place
Rabbi ShimonOnly Yehuda has three; all the rest are like Har HaMelech — keep eating as long as produce lasts there→ the rest follow Har HaMelech
Olives and dates: the whole Land is one
MishnahAll the lands are one — keep eating until the last is gone from the whole of Eretz Yisrael→ until they are gone from all of Eretz Yisrael
Animals roam the whole Land for them
Sheviis 9:3
Why Three Lands
לָמָּה אָמְרוּ שָׁלֹשׁ אֲרָצוֹת
וְלָמָּה אָמְרוּ שָׁלֹשׁ אֲרָצוֹת,
שֶׁיִּהְיוּ אוֹכְלִין בְּכָל אַחַת וְאַחַת עַד שֶׁיִּכְלֶה הָאַחֲרוֹן שֶׁבָּהּ.
רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, לֹא אָמְרוּ שָׁלֹשׁ אֲרָצוֹת אֶלָּא בִיהוּדָה.
וּשְׁאָר כָּל הָאֲרָצוֹת, כְּהַר הַמֶּלֶךְ.
וְכָל הָאֲרָצוֹת, כְּאַחַת לַזֵּיתִים וְלַתְּמָרִים: