Kerem revai (un vignoble dans sa quatrième année), [qui exige la rédemption s'il souhaite manger ses fruits en dehors de Jérusalem (et il en va de même pour chaque arbre fruitier)] —Beth Shammai dit: Il ne nécessite pas de chomesh (l'ajout d'un cinquième de sa valeur), [il n'est pas écrit dans la Torah qu'un cinquième doit être ajouté, comme il est écrit à propos de la deuxième dîme]; et il ne nécessite pas de déménagement [de la maison à la veille de Pessa'h des quatrième et septième années, quand il enlève la dîme, à savoir. (Deutéronome 26:13): "J'ai enlevé la chose sainte (ma'aser sheni et neta revai) (voir Lévitique 27:30 et 19:24) de la maison."] Et Beth Hillel dit: Cela nécessite un chomesh et il nécessite une suppression. [Beth Hillel le tire (par identité) "saint" - "saint" de ma'aser—Tout comme ma'aser nécessite un chomesh et un retrait, ainsi kerem revai nécessite un chomesh et un retrait; et Beth Shammai ne le dérive pas de là.] Beth Shammai dit: Il [kerem revai] est soumis au peret (la prise de raisins [tombés] individuellement par les pauvres) et il est soumis à l'oleloth (la prise de ] grappes par les pauvres), [car elles sont considérées comme chullin (non sacrées) par le propriétaire]; et les pauvres se rachètent pour eux-mêmes (le peret et l'oleloth qu'ils ont cueillis), et les mangent à leur place et rapportent leur argent (de rachat) à Jérusalem.] Et Beth Hillel dit: Ils vont tous au pressoir, [ car ils dérivent (kerem revai) de ma'aser, et soutiennent que ma'aser sheni est considéré comme sacré par le propriétaire. Par conséquent, les pauvres n'y participent pas. Et les propriétaires pressent les olelim avec le reste des raisins et amènent tout à Jérusalem.]
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כרם רבעי (this Mishnah is also taught in Tractate Peah, Chapter 7, Mishnah 6 and also in Tractate Ma’aser Sheni, Chapter 5, Mishnah 3) – which needs redemption if he comes to eat it outside of Jerusalem and the same law applies to all fruit-bearing trees.
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Introduction
Our mishnah contains several disputes between Beth Shammai and Beth Hillel with regards to the status of the fruit of a vineyard in its fourth year, which according to Leviticus 19:24 must be “set aside”. The Rabbis teach that this fruit is similar to second tithe and that both may be consumed by their owners only in Jerusalem. In our mishnah Beth Shammai says that despite some similarities to second tithe there are some key differences. Beth Hillel teaches that they are completely the same.
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אין לו חומש – For the Torah did not write concerning it that the owners add one-fifth in the matter that it wrote regarding the Second Tithe.
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A vineyard of the fourth year Beth Shammai says: it is not subject to the law of the fifth nor to the law of removal. And Beth Hillel says: it is subject to the law of the fifth and to the law of removal. The fruit of a vineyard in its fourth year is treated similar to second tithe. Both must be brought to Jerusalem and consumed there. If it is too far or too difficult to carry the actual fruit to Jerusalem one may redeem it for money and bring the money to Jerusalem and use it to buy food there. When second tithe is redeemed for money, a person must add one-fifth the value of the produce being redeemed. According to Beth Shammai, when one redeems the fruit of fourth year vineyard he does not need to add the fifth. According to Beth Hillel he does, just as he does with second tithe. Before Passover on the fourth and seventh years of a seven year (shmittah) cycle, one must remove all of the tithes from one’s house. This is called the “law of removal”. According to Beth Shammai the law does not apply to the removal of the fruit of a fourth year vineyard. According to Beth Hillel it does.
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ואין לו ביעור – he is not liable to remove it from the house on the Eve of Passover of the fourth year and of the seventh year as one removes the tithes, as it is written (Deuteronomy 26:13): “[You shall declare before the LORD your God:] ‘I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house, [and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow…].”
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Beth Shammai says: it is subject to the law of fallen grapes and to the law of gleanings, and the poor redeem them for themselves. And Beth Hillel says: all of it goes to the winepress. According to Leviticus 19:10 one is not allowed to pick bare the fruit of a vineyard nor collect the fallen fruit. Rather these must be left for the poor. According to Beth Shammai these rules still apply for the fourth year vineyard. When the poor person has collected his share, he must redeem it himself and bring the money to Jerusalem and use it there to buy food. According to Beth Hillel fourth year produce is not subject to the laws of what must be left to the poor. Just as second tithe is not subject to the laws of what must be left for the poor, so too fourth year produce is not.
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יש לו חומש ויש לו בעור – The School of Hillel derives “holy” “holy” from tithes (Leviticus 19:24: “In the fourth year all its fruit shall be set aside [literally – “holy”] for jubilation before the LORD; and Leviticus 27:30: “All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are the LORD’s;] they are holy to the LORD).” Just as tithes have an added fifth and it has removal, so does the fourth year fruit of the vineyard - it has the added fifth [when redeemed] and it has removal. But the School of Shammai does not derive “holy, holy” from tithes.
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יש לו פרט ויש לו עוללות – for they are considered like non-holy produce.
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והעניים פודין לעצמן – The grapes fallen off during cutting and the gleaning reserved for the poor which they harvested, and they eat them in their place and bring their monetary value to Jerusalem.
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וב"ה אומרים כולו לגת – because they derive it from tithes, and they hold that the Second Tithe money belongs to “On-High.” Therefore, the poor have no portion in it and they tread on the gleanings with the rest of the wine, and the owners bring it all up to Jerusalem.
