יא ואלא מדתנן שלשה אילנות של ג' בני אדם הרי אלו מצטרפין וחורשין כל
11 and it holds that the law of trespass does not apply to 'subsequent growth'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Pes. 66b. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> Rabina replied that there is no contradiction [although in the first case the tree is the decisive factor and not in the second]. [In the first case we suppose]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'here'. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> the roots to be within sixteen cubits of the tree, [and in the second case]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'here'. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> beyond sixteen cubits from it. 'Ulla said: A tree which is nearer than sixteen cubits to the boundary of a neighbour's field is a robber, and the offering of first fruits should not be brought from it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because it says, thou shalt take the first of all the fruit of the ground which thou bringest from thy land (Deut. XXVI, 2.) ');"><sup>12</sup></span> From whence does 'Ulla derive this idea? Shall we say from [the following Mishnah] which we learnt: 'If ten shoots are planted at [equal] intervals in a beth <i>se'ah</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An area of fifty cubits by fifty. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> then the whole of the beth seah may be ploughed up to New Year [of the Sabbatical year]'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' (Sheb. I, 6). Because the whole of the area is required for the nourishment of the trees and the ploughing is therefore purely for their benefit, and not for the purpose of sowing. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> [This cannot be.] For what is the total area occupied? — Two thousand five hundred cubits. How much is that for each tree? — Two hundred and fifty cubits. Now, this is less than the space mentioned by 'Ulla.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who says that the tree sucks from an area with a radius of 26 cubits, which would be much more than 250 cubits. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Can it be then from [the following Mishnah] which we learnt: 'If there are in a field three trees belonging to three different men, they can be combined [to place the field in the category of a plantation field],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A 'plantation field' was allowed to be ploughed up to the Feast of Weeks preceding the Sabbatical year, but a cornfield only up to the Passover. If the three trees are not combined, only the space required for each one can be ploughed up to the Feast of Weeks. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> and the whole