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Talmud: The Talmud analyzes the terms in the Mishnah: What is the meaning of itzterubalin? This is the plant known as torenita. And the Talmud raises a contradiction from a baraita: The rabbis added to the list of plants whose use is prohibited during the Sabbatical Year: Alekesin and itzterubalin, mukhsasin, and benot shuaḥ. And if it would enter your mind to say that itzterubalin is torenita, is there torenita that is subject to the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year?
והתנן: ״זה הכלל: כל שיש לו עיקר — יש לו שביעית, וכל שאין לו עיקר — אין לו שביעית״! אלא אמר רב ספרא: פירי דארזא, וכן כי אתא רבין אמר רבי אלעזר: פירי דארזא.
The Talmud explains: But didn’t we learn in a baraita that this is the principle: Anything that has a root and grows is subject to the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year, and anything that does not have a root is not subject to the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year? If so, torenita, which has no roots, is not subject to the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year, and therefore it cannot be identified as itzterubalin. Rather, Rav Safra says: What is itzterubalin? It is the fruit of the cedar tree. And similarly, when Ravin came from Eretz Yisrael, he said that R' Elazar says: Itzterubalin is the fruit of the cedar tree.
בנות שוח — אמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן: תאיני חיוראתא. ופטוטרות — אמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן: בפטוטרותיהן שנו.
The Mishnah includes benot shuaḥ among the items one may not sell to a non-Jew. Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that R' Yoḥanan says: These are white figs. The Mishnah states: And petotarot. Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that R' Yoḥanan says: This is not another type of fruit; rather, the Mishnah here taught that the sale of the various fruits listed in the Mishnah is prohibited only when they are sold with their stems, not if they have been pruned.