Commentary for Menachot 10:17

ואפילו למ"ד חדש בחו"ל לאו דאורייתא שכן באה להתיר לאו שבתוכה

- The ['Omer meal-offering of the] Sabbatical year was meant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When there is no new produce to be rendered permitted, for in this year the fields were to rest and lie fallow (cf. Ex. XXIII, 10, 11) . Hence the 'Omer meal-offering of this year is on the same footing as any trefah animal in that neither can render anything else permitted; consequently by analogy with the 'Omer meal-offering a trefah animal should be permitted as a sacrifice, and therefore the verse is necessary to exclude the trefah animal.');">²⁰</span> But that surely renders the aftergrowth permitted? - [It is indeed the 'Omer meal-offering of] the Sabbatical year [that is meant], but the view is in accordance with that of R'Akiba who said that the aftergrowth is forbidden in the Sabbatical year.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Pes. 51b. The 'Omer of this year therefore does not render anything permitted and is on all fours with a trefah animal.');">²¹</span>

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