Sheviis 10:7 - 10:8

כוורת דבורים וכו' – when it (i.e., the beehive) is attached with plaster, everyone admits that it is like land/real estate for all things, but if it was placed upon pegs, everyone admits that it is like utensils and is not like land/real estate; they did not dispute other than when it was lying on the ground and not attached with plaster.

ר"א אומר הרי היא כקרקע – and like land/real estate, it is acquired with money, a document and a claim of undisturbed possession during a legally fixed period.

וכותבין עליה פרוזבו – if the debtor/borrower has a beehive, it is like he had land/real estate.

ואינה מקבלת טומאה – in the manner that real estate is attached and is not susceptible to ritual uncleanness.

והרודה – from the honeycombs that are within it on Shabbat, he is liable for a sin-offering like someone who tears off something from the place where it is attached, as it is written (I Samuel 14:27): “And he (i.e., Jonathan) dipped it into the beehive of honey [and brought his hand back to his mouth and his eyes lit up],” bu what connection has he forest with the honey, but rather, just as the forest, he who plucks/detaches from it on the Sabbath is liable for a sin-offering, even honey that one removes [from the beehive] on the Sabbath is liable for a sin-offering. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

המחזיר חוב בשביעית – at the end of the Sseventh Year, which is its year of cancellation of debts, for the Seventh Year does not cause the release from debt other than at its end as it states (Deuteronomy 15;1): “Every seventh year (literally, at the end of the Seventh Year) [you practice remission of debts].”

אמר לו אעפ"כ – the borrower/debtor says to him (i.e., the creditor/lender), even so/nevertheless, I want to repay you.”

יקבל ממנו – is that all? But rather, he is permitted to say to him, that his has hand will be stretched out to receive [payment] from him when he says to him, “I cancel [the debt].”

שנאמר וזה דבר השמטה – meaning to say that mere speech that he he emits from his lips that he cancels is enough, and the first word that he stated, “I cancel” is sufficient, and he does not need to say and repeat, as it states (Deuteronomy 15:2): “This shall be the nature [of the remission],” you have nothing other than the first word, and similarly (Deuteronomy 19:4): “Now this is the case [of the manslayer who may flee there and live].”