Mesorat%20hashas for Moed Katan 5:15

לא דכולי עלמא לית ליה דרבי אבין אמר ר' אילעא מאן דאמר לוקה שפיר

For R'Abin reported R'Ela to have stated that wherever a general [proposition] is stated in the form of a positive command and a particular [specification] in the form of a negative injunction,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., in Lev. XXV, 2-5. We have first a general ordinance in positive terms: The land shall keep a sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow . . prune . . gather in the produce thereof, but the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest unto the Lord (cf. Ex. XXIII,11) ; then follow the particulars in negative terms. Thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of itself thou shalt not reap and the grapes of thy undressed vines thou shalt not gather (Lev. XXV, 4-5) . Then follows a general rule again in positive form: It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.');">²³</span> the hermeneutical rule of General-Particular-General<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to this rule, the particulars are in such a case considered typical as illustrations serving to include in the general rule all such items as are similar to the particulars. E.g. in Ex. XXII, 8 the text first states that an oath can be judicially imposed 'for every matter of trespass'');">²⁴</span> does not apply to it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But it is treated merely as a general proposition which is followed only by a particularization, in which case the general proposition does not go beyond what has actually been specified by the particularization that follows it.');">²⁵</span>

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