Commentary for Kiddushin 77:6

אמר רבי אסי אמר ר' יוחנן ערלה בח"ל הלכה למשה מסיני א"ל ר' זירא לרבי אסי והתניא ספק ערלה בארץ אסור בסוריא מותר (בחוצה לארץ יורד ולוקט) אישתומם כשעה חדא א"ל אימא כך נאמר ספיקא מותר ודאה אסור

But we learnt: R'ELEAZAR SAID, HADASH TOO?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since he adds hadash, he.evidently agrees with the first Tanna that 'orlah is forbidden.');">¹⁰</span> - Read, HADASH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., only hadash, but not 'orlah.');">¹¹</span> R'Assi said in R'Johanan's name: [The prohibition of] 'orlah in the Diaspora is a halachah of Moses from Sinai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Various views are held as to the exact meaning of this phrase. Some take it in its literal sense as indicating that the law in question was actually handed down from Moses. Others understand it more figuratively in the sense of a traditional law, whilst its alleged Mosaic origin is not to be taken literally'. V. Weiss, Dor., I. [For a full discussion of this phrase as well as of all the passages where it occurs, v. Bacher, W., Kohler-Festschrift pp. 56ff.]');">¹²</span>

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