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בזמן שהיובל נוהג, רבי יוחנן אמר: מביא וקורא. ריש לקיש אמר: מביא ואינו קורא.
in the time when the Jubilee Year is practiced, and every sale of land is only for its produce, because the land returns to its original owners in the Jubilee Year, R' Yoḥanan says: The purchaser brings the first fruits and recites the verses. Reish Lakish says: The purchaser brings the first fruits but he does not recite the verses.
רבי יוחנן אמר מביא וקורא – קנין פירות כקנין הגוף דמי. ריש לקיש אמר מביא ואינו קורא – קנין פירות לאו כקנין הגוף דמי.
The Talmud explains: R' Yoḥanan says that the purchaser brings the first fruits and recites the verses, because he holds that the acquisition of an item for its produce is considered to be like the acquisition of the item itself. Consequently, the one bringing the fruits can truthfully recite: “The land which You, YHWH, have given me” (Deuteronomy 26:10). Reish Lakish says that the purchaser brings the first fruits but he does not recite the verses, because he holds that the acquisition of an item for its produce is not considered to be like the acquisition of the item itself.
וצריכא. דאי איתמר בההיא, בההיא קאמר ריש לקיש, דכי קא נחית – אדעתא דפירא קא נחית; אבל בהך – דאדעתא דגופיה קא נחית, אימא מודי ליה לרבי יוחנן.
The Talmud comments: And it is necessary to state the dispute between R' Yoḥanan and Reish Lakish in both cases. Because if it was stated only in that case, with regard to one who acquires a field for its produce, one might say that it is only in that case that Reish Lakish says that he does not recite the verses, since already when he descended to the field, i.e., took possession of the land, he descended with the intention of acquiring only the produce, as stipulated at the time of the sale; but in this case, with regard to one who purchases the field when the Jubilee Year is practiced, when he descended to the field with the intention of acquiring the land itself, say that he concedes to R' Yoḥanan that he recites the verses. Therefore, it is necessary to state explicitly that Reish Lakish holds that he does not recite the verses in this case as well.
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