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Tosefta for Peah 7:7

כֶּרֶם שֶׁכֻּלּוֹ עוֹלְלוֹת, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, לְבַעַל הַבָּיִת. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, לָעֲנִיִּים. אָמַר רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, כִּי תִבְצֹר לֹא תְעוֹלֵל (דברים כד), אִם אֵין בָּצִיר, מִנַּיִן עוֹלְלוֹת. אָמַר לוֹ רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, וְכַרְמְךָ לֹא תְעוֹלֵל (ויקרא יט), אֲפִלּוּ כֻלּוֹ עוֹלְלוֹת, אִם כֵּן לָמָּה נֶאֱמַר כִּי תִבְצֹר לֹא תְעוֹלֵל, אֵין לָעֲנִיִּים בָּעוֹלְלוֹת קֹדֶם הַבָּצִיר:

If a vineyard consists entirely of <i>Olelot</i>, Rabbi Eliezer says: It is for the property owner; Rabbi Akiva says: It is for the poor. Rabbi Eliezer said: "When you harvest, do not take the <i>Olelot</i>" (Deuteronomy 24:21) - If you do not harvest, where do the <i>Olelet</i> come from? Rabbi Akiva said to him: “[from] your vineyard do not take <i>Olelot</i> (Leviticus 19:10)", [do not take it] even if it is entirely <i>Olelot</i>. If so, why does it say "When you harvest, do not take the <i>Olelot</i>"? [to teach that] the poor have no [rights] in the <i>Olelot</i> before the harvest.”

Tosefta Peah

One who plants an orchard in order to dedicate it [to the Temple] is exempt from orlah and from the fourth-year vineyard (i.e., the laws forbidding benefiting from fruit in the first three years, or four years for a vineyard, and see Y. Peah VII.7.2, adding "and from [the laws of] defective clusters"), but he is liable in shevi'it (the seventh year of the agricultural cycle, when working the land is prohibited). From what time is a person permitted to harvest his vineyard (per Vilna Man. delete "בשביעית" = "during shevi'it")? From the time that he knows his fruit (i.e., whether each grape cluster is going to be normal or defective), because [at that point] the vineyard is already liable in (the laws of) the growth of defective clusters.
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