and you shall gather in its produce (11) and the seventh

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Kaspa 3:21

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 9, 2025

"and you shall gather in its produce (11) and the seventh year, etc.": to include (as forbidden) the fruits of the sixth year which enter the seventh year. This tells me only of the above. Whence do I derive (the same for) the fruits of the seventh year which enter the eighth year? It is written (Ibid. 11) "Thus shall you (also) do with your vineyard and with your olive grove." You reason from both as one, viz.: Olive grove is not like vineyard, and vineyard is not like olive grove. What is common to both is that they grow on the waters of the seventh year and are (forbidden) as are the fruits of the seventh year. So, all that grows on the waters of the seventh year are (forbidden) as the fruits of the seventh year. These are the words of R. Yoshiyah. R. Yonathan says: This (derivation) is not needed. Is it not already written (Ibid.) "and what they leave shall be eaten by the animals of the field"—to include (as forbidden) the fruits of the seventh year which enter the eighth year. And what is the intent of "Thus shall you do with your vineyard and with your olive grove"? Scripture comes to institute removal (of seventh-year growths) for olive grove in itself and for vineyard in itself.

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