Study Rosh Hashanah folio 15B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: The baraita is incomplete and is teaching the following: Avtolemos testified in the name of 5 Elders: An etrog follows the time of its picking in the matter of tithes and it follows the time of the formation of its fruit in the matter of the Sabbatical Year. But our rabbis voted
It was stated that the amora’im of Eretz Yisrael discussed this issue: R' Yoḥanan and Reish Lakish both say: An etrog from the 6th year of the Sabbatical cycle that entered into, and was picked in, the Sabbatical Year is always and for all purposes considered as 6th-year produce. When Ravin came fr
A baraita states: A tree whose fruits were formed before the 15th of Shevat is tithed in accordance with the previous year, and if the fruits were formed after the 15th of Shevat it is tithed in accordance with the coming year. R' Neḥemya said: In what case is this statement said? It is said with
The Talmud interrupts with a question about the wording of this baraita: Does it enter your mind to say two broods? Animals produce broods, but trees do not. Rather, say: Like two broods, i.e., two seasons’ worth of crops.
The baraita continues: But in the case of trees that produce only one brood of fruit, for example, palm trees, and olive trees, and carob trees, which yield fruit only once a year, although their fruit took form before the 15th of Shevat, they are tithed in accordance with the coming year, since th