s, and the parsley of the marshes, and the rocket
of the desert, are free from tithes; and they may be bought from all men
in the Sabbatical year, because nothing like them is legally guarded.
Rabbi Judah said, "the sprouts of the mustard are allowed, because
transgressors are not suspected for taking them from a guarded place."
Rabbi Simon said, "all vegetables that sprout again are allowed, excepting
the sprouts of cabbage, because there is not their like among the greens
of the field." But the Sages say, "whatever sprouts again is forbidden."

2. There are three countries to be public property in the Sabbatical year:
Judah and beyond Jordan and Galilee; and each is divided into three parts:
Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee, and the Vale. From the village of Hananiah
and upward, every part in which the sycamore tree does not grow is Upper
Galilee. And from the village of Hananiah and lower down, where any
sycamore tree grows, is Lower Galilee. And the neighborhood of Tiberias is
the Vale. And in Judah, the mountains, the plain, and the vale, and the
plain of Lydda is as the plain of the south. And its mountains are as the
King's mountain.(79) From Bethhorn and to the sea is one province.

3. "And wherefore did the Sages say three countries?" "That men might eat
during the Sabbatical year in every one of them, till the last fruits be
finished in it." R. Simon said, "they did not say three countries, they
said only in Judah." And all the other countries are reckoned as the
King's mountain; and all countries are reckoned the same for olives and
dates.

4. Men may eat so long as there is any fruit legally free, but they must
not eat of that which is legally guarded. Rabbi Jose "allowed it, even
when guarded." They may eat fruit so long as it is found in birds' nests,
and such fruit as is twice produced in each year, but they must not eat of
winter fruit. R. Judah "allowed it at all times, if it ripened before the
summer ended."

5. "If men pressed three sorts of fruit in one barrel?" R. Eliezer said,
"they may eat of the first." R. Joshua said, "even of the last." Rabban
Gamaliel said, "everything, the species of which is finished growing in
the field, its species is to be removed from the barrel."(80) Rabbi Simon
said, "all greens are reckoned as one. They are to be cleared away from
the house." They may eat of the leeks till the teasels have ceased growing
in the valley of Beth-Netopha.

6. "He who gathers fresh herbs?"