Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 29:11
Because we say, Make the blossoming the determining factor.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And so it belongs to the sixth year.');"><sup>13</sup></span> But if so, it should surely be liable to tithe? - He replied to him: Everybody handles it, and you say it should be liable to tithe! R'Hamnunah, however, said: A citron tree which blossoms in the sixth year and ripens in the seventh is always reckoned as belonging to the sixth, and one which blossoms in the seventh and ripens in the eighth is always regarded as belonging to the seventh.
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