Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 29:3

מאי שנא התם דקתני אם היתה שניה נכנסת לשלישית ומאי שנא הכא דקתני אם היתה שלישית נכנסת לרביעית

Why in the former statement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Tosef. quoted on ');">³</span> is the expression used, 'if it was the meeting point of the second and third years', and in this statement the expression, 'if it was the meeting point of the third and fourth years'? - This points out to us incidentally that the citron tree suffers from being handled, and since everybody handles it in the seventh year,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since, like all other trees, it is common property in that year.');">⁴</span>

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