Peah 7:2 - 7:3

שלש שורות של שני מלבנים – three rows of olive trees and between the first row and the second there is a square garden-bed in the form of a small grain plot (of three handbreadths in width) that is between the olives as is taught in the Mishnah above at the beginning of chapter three (Mishnah 1)., and similarly, between the second row and the third row, and he forget the middle tree that is in the middle row, that is not forgetting for the trees that surround it hid it, and it is similar to covering it with straw or poor people stood opposite it as is taught in the Mishnah above that is not forgetting.

במה דברים אמורים – it refers to the Mishnah that is above (Mishnah 1 of Chapter Seven), with a dripping oil at its time, and its forgetting is not forgetting. What are we referring to? At the time when he not begun [to harvest the tree] with it, but if he begun with it and had forgotten it, it is forgetting until there is in it two Se’ah.

כל מזן שיש לו תחתיו יש לו בראשו – If the owner of the olives is reminded from the olives that he forgot on the tree while he has olives underneath it, he can go back and harvest them, and it is not considered forgotten what he forgot at the top of the tree other than after no olives remained underneath the tree.

רבי מאיר אומר משתלך המחבא – that is to say, from when the harvester checked with the rods by which hidden olives are knocked down (i.e., searching after the hidden olives) , then all that remains is for the poor when the owner of the tree has no olives underneath [the tree], but all the while that the harvester did not check with the rods by which hidden olives are knocked down, even though there are no olives underneath, he can go back and harvest. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

איזהו פרט – that is mentioned in the Torah (Leviticus 19:10): “or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard.”

עקץ – sever/cut [by the stalk].

הוסבך בעלים – it became tied and caught in the trees, and through this fell and was separated into single grapes.

הרי הוא של בעל הבית – it was not separated through the cutting [of the branches].

המניח כלכלה בשעה שהוא בוצר – he places a basket underneath the grapes when the individual grapes fall into it.

הרי זה גוזל את העניים – that fallen grapes when falling, the poor have taken possession before they reach the ground.

אל תסג גבול עולים – this is explained above in chapter 5 (Tractate Peah, Mishnah 6).