Mesorat%20hashas for Moed Katan 5:18

ומנין שאין מקרסמין ואין מזרדין ואין מפסגין באילן ת"ל שדך לא כרמך לא כל מלאכה שבשדך לא כל מלאכה שבכרמך לא

Consider: pruning comes within [the general process of] sowing and grape-gathering within [the general process of] reaping, what rule did the All-Merciful intend to inculcate by inserting these [secondary processes] into the text? To indicate that only for these secondary processes [specified in the text] is one [to be] held liable, but for any other secondary process<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., ploughing.');">³⁰</span> he is not [to be] held liable.

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