Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 30:5

א"ל אף בזו הלחם מפוגל והכבשים אינן מפוגלין ואמאי לימא ק"ו ומה המפגל אינו מתפגל הבא לפגל ולא פיגל אינו דין שלא יתפגל

hemp and arum,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of all seeds only these kinds are forbidden to be sown in a vineyard, for they ripen only after three years, and their seed does not perish in the ground but they leave roots behind them; moreover they grow in clusters like grapes. In the cur. edd. there is here quoted the Mishnah Kil. I, 5; but it is omitted in all MSS.');">⁶</span> but other seeds are forbidden only Rabbinically; therefore he who transgressed the law was penalized by the Rabbis, and he who did not transgress the law was not penalized by the Rabbis.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that in the above case where a man sowed seed in his neighbour's vineyard the prohibition involved was only a Rabbinic one, and the Rabbis penalized only him who transgressed their enactment but not the owner of the vineyard. Thus there is no place for the a fortiori argument, for even the seeds are not forbidden strictly but only as a penalty.');">⁷</span>

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