Peah 3:6 - 3:7

קרקע בית רובע – a place where it is appropriate to sow in it one-quarter of a Kab, and they explained it as ten and one-half cubits by ten cubits by proportion.

העושה סאתים – Rabbi Yehoshua does not follow after sowing, but rather the ground that produces two Se’ah which is twelve Kabs.

לקצור ולשנות – it is the manner of reapers that he grasps a palm’s worth from the flour and reaps, as it is written (Psalms 129:7): “that affords no handful for the reaper, [no armful for the gatherer of sheaves],” that the reaper did not have a handful. And if there is among the standing corn in order to fill his hand twice, he is liable for Peah.

קרקע כל שהוא חייבת בפאה – as he holds, “the corner of your field” (Leviticus 19:9) is implied, and he is in dispute with everyone.

ובכורים – as it is written regarding them “your land” (Exodus 23:19, 24:36). And these words concern the first-fruits of wheat and barley, but the first-fruits of trees – he is not liable other than if he has land sixteen cubits around the tree which is the measure of its absorption.

ולכתוב עליה פרוזבול – Hillel instituted the Prosbul, when he saw that people were prevented from making loans to the poor because the [upcoming] seventh year cancels the debt, he instituted that one should transfer their documents to the Jewish court and write: “I transfer to you, so-and-so and so-and-so the judges every liable that I have that I will collect at the time when I desire,” and when they have written for him this document the seventh year does not cancel his debt (see Mishnah Shevi’it, Chapter 10, Mishnayot 3-4), and specifically when the borrower has a parcel of land, even a bit, and it is then considered as if the debt is collected already in the hand of the Jewish court, and further, we don’t call it (Deuteronomy 15:2): “he shall not dun,” and we consider the land, however small, as if it is worth the entire debt as there is no overreaching for land.

ולקנות עמה נכסים שאין להם אחריות – for movables are acquired with the land, by money, by documentation, or by claim of undisturbed possession (during a legally fixed period).

שכיב מרע – he who lies on his bed on account of illness.

שייר קרקע כל שהוא – all these he left a bit of land, as is taught in our Mishnah, from here until the end of our chapter, not exactly land as the same law applies with a bit of movables, but since the first part of the Mishnah teaches regarding the corner and First Fruits and Prosbul/a declaration made in court before the execution of a loan to the effect that the law of limitation by the entrance of the Sabbatical year shall not apply to the loan to be transacted – a bit of land is taught in all of these are also a bit of land.

מתנתו קיימת – if they purchased from his hand on the gift even though he rose from his illness, he cannot retract, since he left for himself a bit, he revealed his thinking that it was not on account of death that he wrote the gift.

לא שייר קרקע כל שהוא – for himself, from something undefined, a person does not leave himself poorly dressed, and if he had not thought that he would certainly die, he would not give all his possessions, therefore if he stood, he retracts and even if they purchased it from his hand.

וכתב לאשתו קרקע כל שהוא אבדה כתובתה – we are speaking of someone near death who distributes his possessions to his children and writes to his wife a portion among the children, and she herself heard and was silent and didn’t say, “I am collecting my Ketubah” or something similar, she loses her Ketubah.

רבי יוסי אומר אם קבלה עליה – that she would be a partner among the children, and even if they did not purchase from her hand, and he did not command that they should write such in her presence, she lost her Ketubah and furthermore she is not able to retract, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yosi.