Wednesday, March 10, 2010

3a: One packed verse

On this amud, the Talmud moves to a discussion of shemitta - a topic from our mishna it has yet to deal with. It cites Vayikra 25:4 - "In the 7th year there shall be a complete rest for the land...your field you shall not sow..." -- for whole host of prohibitions. Leave it to the rabbis to get almost a page of prohibitions from one verse of Torah. This is not to say they are far-fetched - most fit logically with the verse. I'll never read it the same way again.

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