Sheviis 7:2 - 7:3

עיקר – root.

ערקבלין (palm-ivy/prickly creepers) – my Rabbis explain this as grass that grows near the palm tree and rises and is attached around the palm. But I heard that it is grass that its leaves are similar to a scorpion.

והחלבצין (bulb of Ornithogalum) – the roots of the Ornithogalum that was mentioned above (in Mishnah 1 of this chapter).

הבכרייה (hazelwort/spike-nard – an aromatic plant) – they call it KANGAR in Arabic.

הפואה (dyer’s madder) – in Arabic, PUAH, and in the foreign language, ZRUYAH.

הרכפה (tuberous-rooted plant used for dyeing/a kind of onion) – roots that are under the ground and they seethe it and drink from them their oil, and these are fit as an antidote to worms in the stomach.

אין להם ביעור – because they continue to grow in the ground (as perennials) and they aren’t consumed by the beasts of chase/wildlife in the field, therefore, there is no need to remove them from the house.

דמיהם מתבערים עד ר"ה – this is what he said: their monetary valu needs to be reoved from the world prior to Rosh Hashanah of the Eighth Year, and the same law applies that they had to teach in the Mishnah that they remove it it after Rosh Hashanah if there is anything of those funds in the world after Rosh Hashanah of the Eighth Year, one is obligated to remove them in the holiness of the Seventh Year.

ק"ו לדמיהן – But Rabbi Meir held: I am stringent regarding their monies (from the sale of the produce) more than the actual produce itself, for the produce/fruit is recognized that it would not be used for commerce, but money is not recognized and one might come to use it for commerce. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

והנץ שלו – the flower/blossom that is on the upper portion a frui/protuberance on the blossom-end of fruits (having the appearance of a pestle seated in a mortar).

וקליפי אגוזים – all of these are one dyes with them.

והגלעינים (stone/kernel of a fruit) – stone/kernel of fruit, as for example, the stones that are in olives that we remove oil from them. And the stones of dates that are appropriate for food for cattle.

צובע לעצמו – as it is written (Leviticus 25:6): “[But you may eat whatever the land during its sabbath will produce -] you, [your male and female slaves, the hired and bound laborers who live with you),” for all of your needs.

שאין עושים סחורה בפירות שביעית – and dyeing for pay is business.

לא בבכורות ולא בתרומה – perhaps they will be detained with him and they will come to be a snare to him. And exactly with a first born living animal, they decreed this but if it is slaughtered, it is permitted t sell it, even according to the Rabbis, as long as they don’t sell it in a bazaa/a number of booths put up for a mercantile fair.

ולט בנבלות ואל בטרפות – for after the All-Merciful wrote that “they are unclean for you,” (Leviticus 11:27), why does it have to state further, “and they will be impure for you,” (Leviticus 11:35) but rather one is for the prohibition of eating and the other is for the prohibition of benefitting from it. But if you say – that the donkey, the camel, the horse and the mule, these are different for they are gown for their work and they are not forbidden to do business, but rather, with something that stands to be eating. And any thing that is forbidden from the Torah is prohibited to conduct business with, but a thing that from their words (i.e., the Sages) it was made forbidden, it is not forbidden to conduct business with it, but rather, wine of gentiles of which it is not known that it has been dedicated to an idol, that was made forbidden according to their words (I.e., of the Sages), it is forbidden to conduct business with it.

ולא יהא לוקח – meaning to say, to gather and sell in the market as it appears like business, but when his son sells it by his hand, meaning, for him, even though he gathered them to sell them, it does not look like business.

לקח לעצמו – gathered it for himself to eat and there was leftover, it is permitted to sell them, even he himself.