Sheviis 8:11 - 9:1

ואם מתחשב הוא – if he is an important person that people learn from him, he must be stringent upon himself.

הפיגם (the herb rue – with leaves that a re wide below and narrow on top) – a grass that is called RUTA in the foreign language.

והירבוזין (asparagus, strawberry-blite) – ASPARGEE in the foreign language, and the wild ASPARGEE of the fields that are not of the gardens.

והחלגלוגות (purslane)- in Arabic RAGLA and in he foreign language VIRDOLAGESH.

וכוסבר (coriander) – COLIANDER in the foreign language. And especially of the mountains, but they of the gardens they are highly regarded. . And similarly, and parsley of the rivers especially but not of the garden.

כרפס – APIYU in the foreign language.

גרגיר (garden rocket) – ORIGA in the foreign language.

שבאפר – that grows in the reed-grass. But of the garden it is highly regarded.

פטורים מן המעשר – in all of the years, as it (i.e., the Mishnah) explains the reason, that there are not in a similar manner guarded and are not highly regarded in the eyes of their owners and they make them ownerless, and that which is ownerless is exempt from the tithes, as it is written (Deuteronomy 14:29): “Then the Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have,” with a a matter that he does not have a hereditary portion as you have, he takes his tithes, excluding that which is ownerless, gleanings, the forgotten sheaf and the corner [of the field] that he does have a portion as you have.

ונלקחים מכל אדם בשביעית – (and are brought from anyone during the Sabbatical Year) – because there is no way to guard them, for every thing that has a way to guard it is prohibited to acquire it from an illiterate individual (i.e., a person who does not know/observe the laws of Levitical purity and the tithes) in the Seventh Year , for he is suspect to guard the produce, and not to make them ownerless, and a person who acquires it from that which guarded, even like one-half an Issar’s worth is prohibited. And all of these of our Mishnah whose legal presumption is that they don’t guard them are permitted to purchase them for an illiterate individual in order to have food for the three meals [of the Sabbath or Festival day] alone and not more, for we don’t transfer the monies of the produce of the Seventh Year to an illiterate individual, even though that this produce is from that which is ownerless, more than food for three meals, because he is suspect to store the monies and don’t practice with them the Sanctity of the Seventh Year.

שלא נחשדו עליהם עוברי עבירה – because to bring them from that which is guarded. But the Halakha is not according to Rabi Yehuda.

כל הספיחין מותרין – to acquire from all persons, for we legally presume that they are not from that which was guarded.

חוץ מספיחי כרוב – that their legal presumption is that they are from that which is guarded.

Because there is nothing of a similar manner among vegetables of the field that do not grow like them in the wilderness, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.