Commentary for Moed Katan 4:19

רבא אמר אפילו תימא רבנן אבות אסר רחמנא

the text speaks here of two forms of release, one the release of the so [from tillage]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., let the soil lie fallow and the crops free and unguarded against the poor, Ex. XXIII, 11.');">²¹</span> and the other the release of money<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Let slip the money debts owing to you.');">²²</span> [the juxtaposition of] which tells us that so long as you must release the soil [from tillage], you must release the money [debt], but when you do not release the soil, you need not release the money!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The interpretation is based on the ground that since the Nation, Israel as a whole, is no longer in possession of the Holy Land as his inheritance, the land laws relative to the sabbatical year and Jubilee re-distributions, which are made contingent on Israel's entry and possession');">²³</span> Said Raba [not necessarily], you may even say [it voices] the view of the Rabbis<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the operation of the sabbatical year nowadays is Biblical.');">²⁴</span> and that they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Those that are specified in the text of Holy Writ.');">²⁵</span> are the principal [types of work] that the Divine Law has forbidden [explicitly],

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