Related%20passage for Nedarim 121:8

עד הפסח אסור כו': למימרא דרבי מאיר סבר לא מעייל איניש נפשיה

you must count it as the fiftieth year, but not as the fiftieth and as the first year [of the following jubilee].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that year is the fiftieth, the jubilee, and it cannot be counted also as the first of the following fifty and seven year. cycles. ');">⁷</span> Hence they [the Sages] said: The Jubilee is not part of the [following] septennate. R. Judah maintained: The Jubilee is counted as part of the septennate. Said they to R. Judah, But Scripture saith, six years shalt thou sow thy field,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 3. ');">⁸</span> whereas here there are only five!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since there is no sowing in the jubilee year. ');">⁹</span> He replied: But on your view, Surely it is said, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 21. ');">¹⁰</span> whereas here there are four!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The forty-eighth year produce must suffice for itself, the forty-ninth, which is a Sabbatical year, the fiftieth, which is Jubilee, and until the harvesting of the fifty-first. This is a difficulty on any view, R. Judah's included: he posits it merely to prove that the Biblical statements about the Sabbatical year do not in any case apply to the Jubilee period, even on the view of the Rabbis. ');">¹¹</span> But it can be referred to other Sabbatical years; hence mine too<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the verse by which you desire to refute me. ');">¹²</span> must be thus explained. 'UNTIL PASSOVER', HE IS FORBIDDEN etc. Shall we say that R. Meir holds that a man does not place himself.

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