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מתני׳ המוכר את שדהו בשעת היובל — אינו מותר לגאול פחות משתי שנים, שנאמר: ״במספר שני תבואת ימכר לך״.
Mishnah: One who sells his field during a period when the Jubilee Year is in effect is not permitted to redeem it less than two years after the sale, as it is stated: “According to the number of years of the crops he should sell to you” (Leviticus 25:15). The plural form “years” indicates a minimum of two years.
היתה שנת שדפון וירקון, או שנת שביעית — אינו עולה מן המנין. נרה או הובירה — עולה לו מן המנין. רבי אליעזר אומר: מכרה לו לפני ראש השנה והיא מליאה פירות — הרי זה אוכל ממנה שלש תבואות בשתי שנים.
If one of those years was a year of blight or mildew, or if it was the Sabbatical Year, when the buyer is unable to derive benefit from the field, that year does not count as part of the tally, and the owner must wait an additional year before redeeming the field. If the buyer plowed the field but did not sow it, or if he left it fallow, that year counts as part of his tally, as it was fit to produce a crop. R' Eliezer says: If the owner of the field sold it to the buyer before Rosh HaShana and the field was full of produce, and the owner redeems the field after two years, that buyer consumes from the field’s produce 3 crops in two years. Although he received the field with its crop, he is not required to return it in the same state.
גמ׳ המוכר שדהו בשעת היובל וכו׳. ״אינו גואל״ לא קתני, אלא ״אינו מותר לגאול״, אלמא קסבר: איסורא נמי איכא, דאפילו קרקושי זוזי נמי אסור.
Talmud: The Mishnah states that one who sells his field during a period when the Jubilee Year is in effect is not permitted to redeem it less than two years after the sale. The Talmud notes: The Mishnah does not teach that one cannot redeem his field before two years have elapsed; rather, the Mishnah teaches that one is not permitted to redeem it. Evidently, the tanna of the Mishnah holds that there is also a prohibition involved in the matter, such that it is prohibited even to rattle dinars before the buyer in order to persuade him to sell back the field.
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