Halakhah for Makkot 16:3

איכא דמתני לה אהא (שמות לד, כא) בחריש ובקציר תשבות ר"ע אומר אינו צ"ל חריש של שביעית וקציר של שביעית שהרי כבר נאמר (ויקרא כה, ד) שדך לא תזרע וכרמך לא תזמור אלא אפילו חריש של ערב שביעית שנכנס לשביעית וקציר של שביעית שיצא למוצאי שביעית

There are those that teach this on the following (Rava's statement, instead of being related to inadvertent killing will now be compared to laws of shemitah). "From the reaping and the plowing you shall rest" (Exodus 34:21). Rabbi Akiva says the text did not need to speak of reaping and plowing of the seventh year as it already said, "your field, do not plant and your vineyard do not prune" (Leviticus 25:4). Rather, it is teaching (the first verse) that even the plowing of the year before shemitah (is forbidden as its produce) will go into the 7th year and the (sanctity of shemitah is applied) for the reaping of the 7th year that will go out (continue to grow) after the 7th year.

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