Related%20passage for Pesachim 104:1

אוכלין על של בין הכיפין ואין אוכלין על שבין השיצין

One may eat [in reliance] on those that are among the upper [overarching] boughs but one may not eat [in reliance] on those that are among the single prickly branches.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The lower portion of the palm tree near the roots is surrounded with single prickly, thorn-like branches. Now, when a wind blows, the falling dates are retained both among the ordinary (upper) branches as well as the prickly ones. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel rules that you may eat only as long as there are dates among the higher branches, which are accessible; but those (in the prickly branches must be disregarded, since animals cannot take them because of the prickles. In our Mishnah the first Tanna means: When they have completely ceased, even from the prickly branches, he must remove them. Whereas R. Judah maintains that unless one can go and bring them, i.e., unless they are accessible, he must remove them, which means even if there are still dates on these thorn branches.');">¹</span> We learned elsewhere: There are three [separate] districts<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'countries'.');">²</span> in respect of removal: Judea, Transjordania and Galilee;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In each the time of removal is when the produce has 'ceased from the field' in that particular district.');">³</span>

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