Commentary for Bava Batra 143:1

ומי מצית מוקמת לה לר' שמעון כר' עקיבא והא תניא הקדיש שלשה אילנות ממטע עשרה לבית סאה הרי הקדיש את הקרקע ואת האילנות שביניהם לפיכך כשהוא פודה פודה בית זרע חומר שעורים בחמשים שקל כסף

But [on the other hand] can you make R. Simeon concur with R. Akiba,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In saying that the sanctifier sanctifies in a liberal spirit. ');">¹</span> seeing that it has been taught, 'If a man sanctifies three trees in a field where ten are planted to a beth <i>se'ah</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The regulation spacing. V. supra 26b. ');">²</span> then he [automatically] sanctifies in addition the soil and the [young] trees between them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because three such trees constitute a field, and therefore he in effect sanctifies a field and its contents. ');">³</span>

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