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Shemittah

seventh year in the seven year cycle during which lands of Israel remain fallow and debts are cancelled

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  • ‘give me a loaf of bread and i am certain to give you Shemittah vegetables’, permitted?

  • acquiring fruits from one’s own field on Shemittah

  • Amanah - limit to the north of where Shemittah fruit may be brought

  • animals in a pen, animals fertilizing field, how to set up the animal pens on Shemittah

  • biur for grass, reeds, and vines

  • biur obligation when produce is finished in fields, certain types of fields may be exceptions, walled, guarded?

  • border towns - more lenient in regard to Shemittah

  • border towns with questions related to impurity, maaser, and Shemittah, Chamesa of Pechal, Diklaya D’Bavel, Naveh, Darai, Botzraya, Pardeisa, Botzrah, Ammon, Moab, Ashkelon, Tyre, Yavlonah, Keziv, Amanah, Kiflaria, Egypt, Betzer, Kiflaria,

  • borrower offered to repay cancelled loan

  • burying luf or onion plant for later use, which may look like planting

  • calculating agricultural halachic years, needed for different laws for each year of the 7 year agricultural cycle

  • charms to help a tree which isn’t healthy

  • Chikuk - Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish saw people eating mustard during Shemittah

  • clearing stones, sticks, grasses, trees, rabbinic decrees, exceptions to the decrees

  • construction projects in the Shemittah year, collecting stones in preparation

  • construction, bringing large stones, contractor bringing stones

  • construction, building wall adjacent to public road, to neighbor, what to do with the dirt, Shemittah, chol hamoed

  • construction, repairing a wall adjacent to public road, Rabbi Akiva restricts how work of this type is done

  • contested debt isn’t cancelled by Shemittah unless the loan was confirmed prior to the onset of Shemittah

  • contracting on Shemittah to rent a plowed field after Shemittah, encouraging non Jews who work their field on Shemittah, helping the non Jew detach his beehive

  • cooking Shemittah food in terumah oil increases the possibility of it becoming invalidated

  • cutting grapevines, reeds, beams, how to when permitted, stabilizing cracked trees

  • debts are cancelled even if the collection date didn’t yet occur

  • debts due to rape, seduction, defamer, or court decision aren’t cancelled

  • destroying fruit, at what stage of growth is it forbidden to destroy the tree?

  • digging up luf, other plants on Shemittah that had completed their growth prior to Shemittah, type of shovel

    • Perek / Halacha: Sheviis 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 36a-b 38b-39a
    • Vilna Shas: 13b 14b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 194
    • Venice / Bomberg: 35c 36a

  • does an obligation for a penalty begin when the act is committed, or by the court decision? who receives the penalty payment when if the father dies? the girl or the inheritors of the father’s estate? who gets her earnings and findings? is the fine a debt to the father that is inherited (double to first born) and Shemittah cancels? or is it only the father’s once he actually receives it? who receives penalty for her defamation? depending on her age?

  • does contested debt that was resolved collect from mid range quality property, as usual, or is it collectible only from low level quality property, as per biblical law? reason

  • dyeing for yourself, dyeing for others even for free

  • dyes, medical plasters, lamp oil, dye for animal utensils, laundry soap, perfumes fragrant flowers, balsam, subject to Shemittah rules?

  • each sub-region of Israel does biur based on the plants in that sub-region

  • eating fruits from a field on which Shemittah was properly observed, thanking the owner

  • eating vegetables after Shemittah ends, how soon?

  • Egyptian bean planted in 6th year, picked in 7th, planted in 7th, picked in 8th

  • Ein Kushin - ate luf there, possibly right after Shemittah

  • encouraging a non Jew who is working his field on Shemittah

  • exchanges of Shemittah products can lead to stricter limits on the money or products

  • fertilizer, requirement to remove off of field where animals are penned, how quickly?

  • fertilizer, when and how much can be placed in piles on the field

  • field of reeds follows stricter halachah of fields of grain

  • field of saplings, more lenient than mature trees, shape of field

  • field of trees, amount, type, spacing, quantity of fruit produced, size of tree if not fruit bearing

  • field of trees, definition for plowing prior to Shemittah, acquiring surrounding land via the purchase of trees

  • field of trees, fits requirements, but owned by more than one owner

  • field owned by a non Jew, produce permitted on Shemittah

  • food, animal feed, dye from plants, which decompose are subject to Shemittah laws

  • forgotten laws of willows, water libations, Shemittah law of ten saplings re-established

  • fruits which mature over more than one year, how to track which fruit is from which year

  • gave half shekel that had been designated for someone else, from hekdesh maaser sheni or Shemittah funds, consecrated items misused

  • gourd hardened, left on vine

  • gourd leaves not edible for humans but fit for animals, status on Shemittah

  • government coercion to work fields on Shemittah was removed, does the penalty of working field come back?

  • grain or bean field, deadline for plowing the field in year prior to Shemittah

  • great law of Shabbos, forgot about Shabbos over many weeks, knew about details, or the main idea of Shabbos and violated many times, violated many details within one law of Shabbos, punishment for each of these, great rules of Shabbos, Shemittah, maaser,

  • greeting a Jew, on Shemittah, who works his field

  • human food, animal food, cosmetics, medicine, firewood, wants to change it’s ordinary use, intent changed

  • if plants endure in the ground and wouldn’t rot, certain Shemittah laws are lenient

  • impurity of foreign lands, obligation of maaser, Shemittah, border and beyond border towns, questions, stories

  • impurity of foreign lands, obligation of maaser, Shemittah, border and beyond border towns, questions, stories

  • impurity of foreign lands, obligation of maaser, Shemittah, on border, beyond border towns,, questions, stories

  • ineligible to be a judge or witness if he sells Shemittah fruit, he is still eligible if it isn’t his only job

  • ineligible to be a judge or witness if he sells Shemittah fruit, he is still eligible if it isn’t his only job

  • kerem rivai interacting with: Shemittah year, maaser sheni, neta rivai, biur, bikkurim, adding one fifth, holiness, hallel, redemption

  • Keziv - limit to the north of where Shemittah fruit can be brought

  • kulkasya leaves, forbidden to use as cup because deer eat them

  • laborers may use money earned picking Shemittah produce depending on the words used by their employer

  • laborers may use money earned picking Shemittah produce depending on the words used by their employer

  • laborers may use money earned picking Shemittah produce depending on the words used by their employer

  • lenient nowadays due to it being a rabbinic decree

  • lent money on the condition that the loan isn’t cancelled by Shemittah

  • limitations and guidance on the use of Shemittah money for water, bathing, barber, boat operator

  • loans are cancelled, but liens aren’t cancelled

  • lowland in mountainous region, mountain in lowland region, treated same as region it is in, Suria, Meron, Gush Chalav, biur times for various regions and produce

  • luf or onion that grew in parts of years 7 and 8, so part was owned by the poor

    • Perek / Halacha: Sheviis 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 36a 36b-38b
    • Vilna Shas: 13b-14b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 194
    • Venice / Bomberg: 35c 35d-36a

  • luf, how long after Shemittah may one buy? reason

  • maaser obligation for a Jew who bought a field from a non Jew in Suria, compared to grain partially grown in Shemittah year, partially grown while ownerless, hekdesh, owned by non Jew, in roofed house,

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 41b 42a-43a
    • Vilna Shas: 23a 23a-24a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 281
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51c 51d

  • may use dye for personal use, not for profit

  • minor change of language causing no Shemittah sanctity on money earned picking vegetables of Shemittah

  • mixed foods which have different biur dates

  • moistening wheat with wet thorns, thorns thereby become unusable for animal feed

  • money earned selling Shemittah fruit, throw into the salty sea

  • money earned working field on Shemittah, permitted to use? purchasing using vegetables or Shemittah money

  • obligated to return Shemittah fruit to Israel if it was brought out?

  • omer requirement overrules the restrictions of Shemittah

  • omer requirement overrules the restrictions of Shemittah

  • one may lend kitchen equipment to one suspected of violating sheviis or impurity laws, but may not assist in the forbidden work to not assist a sinner, lending permitted due to peaceful ways, may encourage a non Jew working on Shemittah due to peaceful ways

  • one who lent or rented a measure container isn’t required to demand it back, even if misused on Shemittah

  • onions of the 6th year which may have also grown in the 7th year, 7th year which may have grown in 8th year

    • Perek / Halacha: Sheviis 6:3
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 48b-50a
    • Vilna Shas: 17b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 199-200
    • Venice / Bomberg: 36b 36d-37a

  • paying workers who work with Shemittah produce, limitations

  • penalties on a field that was wrongly worked on during Shemittah

  • permitted bringing Shemittah fruit to Suria

  • permitted eating vegetables immediately after Shemittah

  • person who avoided eating bread without challah removed, but didn’t care about Shemittah rules

  • planted areas marked every year, or only during a Shemittah year

  • planted areas marked every year, or only during a Shemittah year

  • planted in a box or took root in an attic, laws of impurity, Shemittah, maaser, shabbos

  • planted in a box or took root in an attic, laws of impurity, Shemittah, maaser, shabbos

  • planted in a box or took root in an attic, laws of impurity, Shemittah, maaser, Shabbos

  • planted in a box or took root in an attic, laws of impurity, Shemittah, maaser, shabbos

  • planted trees close to Shemittah, required to uproot? fruit forbidden? son inherited tree required to uproot?

  • planted trees within 30 days of Shemittah, partial year won’t count towards orlah, forbidden to upkeep in Shemittah year, fourth year fruits are forbidden until 15th of Shevat, planted before 30 days prior to Shemittah, partial year counts to Shemittah, may upkeep during Shemittah, as fourth year begins new fruits are permitted

  • planted trees within 30 days of Shemittah, partial year won’t count towards orlah, forbidden to upkeep in Shemittah year, fourth year fruits are forbidden until 15th of Shevat, planted before 30 days prior to Shemittah, partial year counts to Shemittah, may upkeep during Shemittah, as fourth year begins new fruits are permitted

  • planting non fruit bearing trees

  • plants not in the earth are exempt from Shemittah laws

  • plants that can become edible if sweetened

  • plants that grow wild, therefore can be bought from an am haaretz without concern about Shemittah

  • plants, various, Shemittah applies? money exchanged for them acquires Shemittah sanctity? biur? mixtures?

  • plowing forbidden for a period of time prior to Shemittah

  • pollinating trees

  • produce grown in overseas soil from that was brought into Israel, obligated in maaser, Shemittah, challah?

  • produce grown in overseas soil from that was brought into Israel, obligated in maaser, Shemittah, challah?

  • produce grown in overseas soil from that was brought into Israel, obligated in maaser, Shemittah, challah?

  • quarrying or using stones from an existing fence, which looks like plowing, depends on intent

  • Rabbi Chizkiyah refused to assist a person inappropriately sell Shemittah fruit

  • Rabbi Chizkiyah refused to assist a person inappropriately sell Shemittah fruit

  • reacquiring ownership for produce that was ownerless at the time of biur

  • removing stones from a field, situations where removal of stones is permitted

  • rice, millet, poppy, sesame, Egyptian bean calculating which year it is counted for based on stages of growth

  • ripeness, at what stage do Shemittah fruit become permitted?

  • rose petals soaked in oil, one has Shemittah status, the other doesn’t

    • Perek / Halacha: Sheviis 7:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 57a-b 59b
    • Vilna Shas: 19b 21a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 204
    • Venice / Bomberg: 37a-b 37c

  • saffron crocus, flax, salt, water, vetch, seed of luf, leek, seed onion, turnips, radishes, inedible seeds, woad, madder

  • sages are pleased when someone repays a debt which was cancelled by Shemittah

  • salary owed can become a debt and therefore cancelled if the work came to an end due to Shemittah

  • sap of balsam tree in regard to Shemittah compared to sap of orlah tree

  • sap of balsam tree in regard to Shemittah compared to sap of orlah tree

  • sapling - until what size or age?

  • saplings and gourd plants can combine to become a ten sapling field which is more lenient

  • sefichin - why Rabbi Shimon treated cabbage strictly, plants that could be recognized as sefichin

  • selling farm equipment or a plowing cow during Shemittah to people suspected of farming or a non Jew

  • selling produce from outside Israel, may not be sold by measure, weight, number

  • selling produce, forbidden by weight, size, amount, reasons

  • selling vegetables, son selling for him, 5 selling for each other, partnership, retailer, always available to sell

  • Shemittah cancels loans between Jews, unless arrangement isn’t set up in format of a loan, such as payment to a worker

  • Shemittah cancels the debt of someone who divided meat on Rosh Hashanah and gave it to others on credit, reason

  • Shemittah fruit or oils that must be burned may not leave Israel

  • Shemittah produce, when exchanged, still retains its holiness, exchanges with non holy, will transfer Shemittah status to those items, further exchanges will transfer, the second (and further) items in a chain of transfers, will not retain their holy status, except the last

  • Shemittah products only used for their proper usage, eating, drinking, anointing, same as terumah and maaser, Shemittah more lenient may use oil for a lamp

  • Shemittah regions and sub-regions, Galilee region - upper Galilee, lower Galilee, the valley, Kfar Chananyah, Tiberias, Judeah region - mountains, lowlands, valley, Lod, Har Melech, Bais Choron, trans-Jordan

  • sixth year field work permitted until the start of Shemittah, work permitted during Shemittah

  • son inherited or a buyer bought a field that had been plowed in the Shemittah year, penalty?

  • store credit extended turns previous store credit (even if done on yom tov) into debt which is then cancelled by Shemittah

  • storekeeper selling but only charging for non sheviis ingredients or his lost work time

  • straw, benefit, burn, when permitted? use in plaster, sefichin? bran, animal feed

  • Suria - rules of Shemittah more lenient

  • Suria - rules of Shemittah more lenient

  • taking bread from a baker on Shemittah in exchange for ‘when i pick vegetables in the field, i will give you some’

  • taking bread from a baker on Shemittah in exchange for ‘when i pick vegetables in the field, i will give you some’

  • taking bread from a baker on Shemittah in exchange for ‘when i pick vegetables in the field, i will give you some’

  • taking bread from a baker on Shemittah in exchange for ‘when i pick vegetables in the field, i will give you some’

  • testing seeds in a flowerpot, hydroponics, aloe growing on rooftop

  • thinning a grove of trees, cutting firewood, burning an area of reeds, cutting wood

  • three regions for Shemittah laws, Judea, trans-Jordan, Galilee, each region is further divided into 3 each

  • three regions for Shemittah, regions conquered by those who came from Babylon - strict, conquered by those who came from Egypt - less strict, outside of these areas - no Shemittah at all

  • told student of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi that it was permitted to eat Shemittah fruit from a non Jew’s field

  • training a cow to plow

  • transporting Shemittah fruit out of Israel

  • turning animal or human food into juice

  • Tyre - halachah question about Shemittah asked to Rabbi Ba and Rabbi Ila

  • Tzippori - residents asked a Shemittah question

  • uses forbidden with Shemittah money, consequences

  • using Shemittah money for mundane purchases

  • vegetables count based on the year they are picked

  • vow against having benefit, entering his field before or during Shemittah, eating fruits hanging outside the field, borrowing, lending items, selling each other items, animals, the one who made the vow doesn’t have food or needs help such as building a house, and the person he vowed not to have benefit from wants to help him

  • watering a white (grain) field

  • watering sometimes permitted in Shemittah, but not on chol hamoed, reason

  • watering sometimes permitted in Shemittah, but not on chol hamoed, reason

  • watering withheld for sterile onions and Egyptian beans for 30 days, year it is counted for changes?

  • went from Lod to Bais Guvrin to bathe, problem of heating bathhouse with straw of Shemittah

  • what happens or should be done with produce in one’s possession after the time of biur, who may eat it?

  • wife’s kesubah cancelled by Shemittah in certain situations

  • willow ceremony, water libation, Shemittah rule ten saplings Halachah LeMoshe MiSinai, enacted by prophets, or Torah law?

  • work permitted with Shemittah produce provided that it is done in an unusual way

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