Una regla importante que ellos [los Sabios] dijeron con respecto al año sabático: cualquier cosa que sea alimento humano o animal o de una especie [de planta] utilizada para morir si no dura [si queda] en el campo, [las leyes de] el año sabático se aplica a él y [las leyes de] el año sabático se aplican a su dinero [intercambiado por él], [las leyes de] Bi'ur [requisito de destruir el producto sabático cuando ya no está disponible] se aplican a esto y [las leyes de] Bi'ur se aplican a su dinero. ¿Y qué [se considera comida humana]? La hoja de Scolopendrium Hemionitis y la hoja de Ceterach y endibia y puerros y verdolaga y Netz HeChalav [planta desconocida]. ¿Y [lo que se considera] alimento para animales? Espinas y cardos. ¿Y [lo que se considera] una especie [de planta] utilizada para morir? Woad [solía hacer tinte azul] y más loco [solía hacer tinte rojo]. [Las leyes de] el año sabático se aplican a ellos y [las leyes de] el año sabático se aplican a su dinero, [las leyes de] Bi'ur se aplican a ellos y [las leyes de Bi'ur se aplican a su dinero.
Tosefta Bikkurim
There is a stringency with Terumah and second tithe that there is not with first fruits: That Terumah and second tithe apply to [the lands of] Ammon and Moab, which is not the case with first fruits. There is a stringency with second tithe and first fruits that there is not with Terumah: That second tithe and first fruits require one to come to the "place" (i.e., the Temple, the "place" that God has chosen to have his name dwell (see Deut. 14:23 (second tithe), Deut. 26:2 (first fruits)), and they require a confession, and they are forbidden to a mourner -- but Rabbi Shimon permits them [to a mourner]. And they are liable in [the laws of] bi'ur (i.e., the requirement that one uproot produce growing during the sabbatical year, and declare it ownerless (see Sheviit 7:1, 9:4).]. Rabbi Shimon says, first fruits are exempt from bi'ur (Bikkurim 2:2). Rabbi Yosei says, since second tithe requires confession and first fruits require confession, [you must say that] since second tithe requires removal, so too first fruits must require removal as well. Rabbi Shimon said to him, since with second tithe, in which the requirement of bi'ur applies [both to seventh-year produce] as well as to money [exchanged for such produce], you must say that with respect to first fruits, as to which the money exchanged for them does not require bi'ur, [the first fruits themselves do not require removal during the sabbatical year].
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Tosefta Demai
We [may] combine fruits [grown] outside the Land of Israel with [exempt, i.e., tithed] fruits [grown] inside the Land of Israel so that they form the majority over [Demai fruits grown] in the Land of Israel in order to exempt them from tithes. We [may] combine fruits [grown] outside the Land of Israel with second-year fruits (i.e., fruits grown in the second year of the agricultural cycle), in order that they form the majority over third-year fruits to exempt them from the second tithe. We [may] combine from the fruits [grown] outside the Land of Israel with third-year fruits in order that they form the majority over fourth-year fruits to exempt them from the poor man's tithe. [?] We [may] combine fruits [grown] immediately before Shevi'it [the seventh year of the agricultural cycle, when fields must lie fallow] in order that they form the majority over fruits [grown during] Shevi'it, to exempt them from Bi'ur ["removal," see Sheviit 7:1]. We [may] combine fruits [grown] outside the Land of Israel with Shevi'it fruits in order that they form the majority over fruits [grown] immediately after Shevi'it in order to exempt them from tithes.
