Elimination of Shmita produce | Part 5 - Set times for elimination

[Music] i'm going to continue with the shmitah classes and we're talking about the concept that is called bio bio is the elimination of the fruit and vegetables that cease to exist in the field or the plantation orchard now besides all the laws that we learned in the last few classes practically saying we can't know when fruit and vegetables don't exist anymore in the field it's impossible what are you going to send the drone now every day throughout the entire country it's not really feasible feasible unless you know you have your own property your own fields you know what's going on it's not so simple so and besides that that if you remember in the first class we explained that israel is divided into three sections so our sages gave more or less a time when you can can and should and have to do the elimination and in our generation we we since it's a little bit different than in the previous years 100 years ago 500 years ago that people had their own land then what we do is we follow a set time to do this elimination and this is called the setting of the time for the elimination so it's very simple a few minutes we'll just go through the laws and you'll see that not only that it's simple that's how we do it now so it says as follows when we're talking about the fruit of shavit fruit and vegetables of shavit there's two types of statuses edible for humans and not edibles for humans once it's not edible for a human then the next person the next entity they will eat will be an animal if it's not edible for an animal then there's nothing even to talk about so here we we kind of categorize the food by if it's edible for humans or not edibles for humans so it says the second that uh that uh the the the produce is not edible by humans but an animal will eat it then it's still not considered that it's gone from the field so if maybe i have old fruit and vegetables in my house i won't eat it but if i throw it to the garbage the cats and the dogs are gonna come and eat it so i can consider that that it doesn't exist anymore in the in the field with that said i need to know again when is there going to be the time that i'm eliminating the fruit and the vegetables next section says uh the word in english i don't know if the right way word will be specie or type but you know in some types of fruit or vegetables is different types so an apple you have yellow apple green apple red apple macintosh whatever the names that they invent same thing with the grapes green grapes purple grapes whatever grapes with seeds without seeds there's always the types a neighbor is called zan now if you put zan in a google translate it will be it will write species so i don't know if you can say really species on a fruit but there's a the type let's say now for the sake of the example apples and then there's different types of apples now one might have uh orchard just with green apples and on the other side of the town of the field will be an orchard with the yellow apples so one might question wait a minute the green ones don't grow anymore do i still do the elimination so the raja says no you go by the type not by the sub category if if you're going by apples old apples not just green or just yellow and the same thing is with with many things because there's yellow potatoes and these purple potatoes and and when it comes to lettuce there's also different types so to keep it simple you go by the entire group not by the thai the the alcohol now subtypes so it says we go by the the main category apple potato orange not like the the color of the shape the limit and i can eat from each and every one of them till the last of all of them will be gone so if the green apples are done you can't find them on the trees anymore but i still have red apples you're still eating till the last of the apples cease to exist now when it comes to set times then at least with the seven species well some of the species our sages gave a set time that's what we do up until in our generation so it says figs dates uh olives and grapes which are the four four from the seven species then our sages gave us a special time don't have to look in the in the field mercedes gave the exact time the dates you have to the time of the elimination is in purim of the third olives is by shavuot and that of course will include also oil anavim at pesach grapes will be tel pesach and figs will be to hanukkah so we have set times when we will do the elimination then gimbals and we go by in our time our generation we go by these these times you don't go to the fields now to look if there's any more dates you you just do the bo you do the elimination of as i told you many times when it comes to the oral torah first generation of the oral torah is the mishna so that goes about 2500 years ago plus then after that came the talmud who came to interpret and explain the mishna after that we have different generations that say commentary on the oral torah so going about a thousand years ago there's a generation it's much more than one generation but there's an era of commentaries like rashi rambam the reef these are the ones that we know these are called rishonim the first ones is already more in our generation and so forth so the rishonim said no you do what our sages said with those times that i just mentioned only if you don't know any other time but that's again that's going about a thousand years ago we in our generation follow the set times that they gave us but if you know for example when we said that dates is a tillporim but if you know a month before that the normal dates on the trees and you know for sure that you have to wait to pull him you do already the elimination as long as you know then you go by what you know if you don't know we go by the times yes and practically it's best to go to arab tell him this is my field this is its location in the three areas in the land of israel what should they do wine will be equivalent to grapes in pesach and oil will be equivalent to olives in shavuot other than that like i told you in our generation is a little bit harder to know exactly when it's over then many what they do is they just do the bull regardless they do the elimination and then they abandon it they do have kill and take it back and we're good to go but to really follow to the details the the elimination process is not so simple and that's why the allah says better to go and ask the rav but will decide based on his knowledge then that will be the sack and that's going to be what we go by [Music] you