Sheviis 4:9 - 4:10

רביעית לסאה – that from a Seah of olives, he is able to produce/bring forth a quarter of a Log of oil.

פוצע – it is the manner of olives to burst them open in order to sweeten their bitterness.

ואוכל בשדה – for it is a thing whose manner is to eat it, but to pour oil, it was not fit, and they don’t pour oil other than from something whose manner is to pour oil.

הכניסו חצי לוג – when they became ripe until he is able to remove one-half a LOG from a Seah.

הכניסו שלשי – when they have grown one -third from what they will eventually grow; alternatiely, when he removes from them now one-third from what he he removes for a Seah when they have ripened well.

כך עונתן לשביעית – one does not eat from them in the Seventh Year until they arrive at the season for tithing that is explained in the first chapter of [Tractate] Maaserot (see especially Mishnah 2), for especially figs and grapes and olives that are one eats customarily prior to their ripening, therefore, they permitted to eat of them in the field in the Seventh Year prior to their reaching the season of tithing, but ot with other fruit/produce.

אין קוצצין את האילן בשביעית – because the All-Merciful said, to eat them, but not to loss them, and I heard since the All-Merciful made them ownerless, for fruit, if he cut them down, he would rob the many.

משיוציא – the beginning of the leaves in the days of Nisan.

משישלשלו (let them down) -when they begin to become heaven and to hang down like a chain.

משיגרעו – when they make kernels of fruit/stones; another explanation: the half-ripe grapes when [the grapes] grow and they become like a white bean that is called inferior.

משינצו – when it grows a blossom, like (Song of Songs 2:12): “The blossoms have appeared in the land,” when they have reached these measurements it is forbidden to cut them in the Seventh Year.

מותר לקצצו – and there is nothing here because of loss of the fruit, or because of theft, to the other language, for the fruit is already appropriate for eating, and because he cuts down good trees, it is not if it of great monetary worth, for its worth is expensive for wood more than for a tree.

וכמה יהא בזית – It does not refer to the Seventh Year, but rather that it would be forbidden to cut it because cutting good trees, as it is written (Deuteronomy 20:19): “you may eat of them, but you must not cut them down.”

רובע –[one quarter] of a Kab, because it is considered greater from other trees, whereas, with the palm-tree, it is permitted to cut it until It is laden with a Kab.