Mesorat%20hashas for Sotah 86:19

ואמר רבי יצחק אמר רבי יוחנן משום רבי אליעזר בן יעקב

a tree into vegetables — Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel allows it in the name of R. Judah b. Gamda of Kefar Acco,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Being a permissible grafting it exempts the owner.] ');">¹⁸</span> but the Sages forbid it. When R. Dimi came [from Palestine to Babylon] he reported in the name of R. Johanan, Whose teaching is it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the statement above: is to exclude one who bends or grafts (the vine). ');">¹⁹</span> It is that of R. Eliezer b. Jacob. Did not R. Eliezer b. Jacob declare above, The word 'vineyard' [is to be interpreted] according to its usual definition? So here also 'planted' [is to be interpreted] according to its usual definition; hence if he planted he does [return home], but if he bends or grafts he does not.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Even in a permissible case of bending or grafting.] ');">²⁰</span> When R. Dimi came he reported that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob: A young shoot less than a handbreadth in height is liable for <i>'orlah</i> so long as it appears to be a year old;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because if he uses its fruit, it might seem to others that he was doing what was forbidden. ');">²¹</span> but this only applies where there are two plants with two other plants parallel to them and one in front.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Five plants so arranged are considered a vineyard, to which all agree that the law of 'orlah applies, v. Ber. 35a. ');">²²</span> Should, however, the entire vineyard [consist of such shoots], then it is talked about.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is generally known that the vineyard has this peculiarity, and he may use the fruit. ');">²³</span> When R. Dimi came he reported that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob: A dead body affects four cubits with respect to the recital of the <i>shema'</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It may not be recited within the four cubits. ');">²⁴</span> as it is said: Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XVII, 5. To perform a precept near a corpse is to deride it, since it is denied the privilege. ');">²⁵</span> R. Isaac declared that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob: A step-daughter reared with her [step-] brothers is forbidden to marry one of them because she appears to be their sister. But this is not so since the relationship is generally known.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That they have neither father or mother in common. ');">²⁶</span> R. Isaac also declared that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob: If gleanings, forgotten sheaves and the corner of the field<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. XIX, 9f. and Deut. XXIV, 19. ');">²⁷</span> are gathered into a barn, they become subject to the tithe.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because people may think that it is the produce of the man's field. ');">²⁸</span> 'Ulla said: He only intended this to refer to a rural district, but in the city the fact [that the owner is a poor man who collected the produce from the fields of others] is generally known. R. Isaac also declared that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob: A shoot which is less than a handbreadth in height does not make the seeds forfeit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Under the law forbidding mixture; v. Deut. XXII, 9. ');">²⁹</span> but this only applies when there are two plants with two other plants parallel to them and one in front. Should, however, the entire vineyard [consist of such shoots] it does make [the seeds] forfeit. R. Isaac also declared that R. Johanan said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob:

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