Komentarz do Szewiit 3:6

של משאוי שנים שנים – that there is with each one of them a burden for two people.

Introduction This mishnah discusses removing a stone wall during sheviit. Again, we are concerned lest it appear that he is clearing his field in order to plant there.

הרי אלו ינטלו (they may be removed) – all of them and even the smallest of them and it does not appear like removing the wall to make a field in its place.

A wall that consists of ten stones, each a load for two men, may be removed, [if] the measurement of this wall is [at least] ten handbreadths high. If the wall is ten handbreadths high and there are at least ten heavy stones there, then he can remove the entire wall because it will be clear that he is removing a wall and not clearing his field in order to plant. It seems that if there is really a wall there, it will be clearer to everyone what he is doing.

פחות מכאן מחצב – and he doesn’t take all of it, but rather razes the rock even with the ground and leaves from the rock a handbreadth in the land in order that it would not be appropriate for sowing.

Less than that he quarries it and he may lower it to within one handbreadth of the ground. If the wall is smaller then he cannot just remove the whole thing. Rather he may remove individual stones, until he lowers it to within one handbreadth of the ground. Leaving that one handbreadth will make it clear to everyone that he is not clearing the wall so that he can plant there.

במה דברים אמורים – that which he should not begin with hewing/chiseling and that in which he razes the rock.

When is this so? From his own field, but from that of another, he may remove whatever he wishes. The mishnah now presents two exceptions to the previous rule. The first is that the rule applies only to a wall in his own field. If the wall is in another person’s field, he may remove the whole thing because it is unusual for a person to clear a wall in order to plant another person’s field.

מה שהוא רוצה יטול – that it doesn’t appear like repairing the field if he began to take [the stones] from the Eve of the Seventh Year.

When is this so? When he did not begin [to remove the stones] in the sixth year, but if he began in the sixth year, he may remove whatever he wishes. The second exception is if he had begun to remove stones from the wall in the sixth year. If he had begun the previous year, then it will seem clearer to everyone who sees him that he is just removing stones and not clearing the field for planting.