ld oil?" "One may pick out
the rose." "But an old rose in new oil?" "One is bound to clear it off
from being private property." "New locust fruit which one steeped in old
wine, and old (fruit) in new (wine)?" "Men are bound to clear them off
from being private property." This is the rule: everything which produces
taste one is bound to clear off from being private property, sorts that
are different and sorts that are the same, however little they be. The
laws of the Sabbatical year disallow however little of its own sort, and
in different sorts that which produces taste.(71)

Chapter VIII

1. The Sages stated an important rule for the Sabbatical year: "Of all
that is only fit for man's food a plaster may not be made for man, and it
is needless to say for beast. And of all that is not fit for man's food a
plaster may be made for man, but not for beast." And all that is not fit
either for man's food or beast's food, if one consider it as food for man
or food for beasts, the Sages impose on it the inconveniences of the laws
relating to man and the inconveniences of the laws relating to beast. If
one, however, consider it as wood, it is reckoned as wood; for example,
the savory and the hyssop and the laurel.

2. Produce of the Sabbatical year is given for food, for drink, and for
anointing, to eat the thing which it is usual to eat, and to anoint with
what it is usual to anoint with. One may not anoint with wine or vinegar.
But one may anoint with oil. And so is it likewise with the heave-offering
and second tithe. The laws of the Sabbatical year are more convenient for
them, because it is permitted to light a candle made from them.

3. Men must not sell the fruits of the Sabbatical year, neither by
measure, nor by weight, nor by count. Neither may they sell figs by
counting, nor greens by weight. The school of Shammai say, "nor in
bunches." But the school of Hillel say, "that which it is usual to make in
bunches in the house men may make in bunches in the market; for example,
cresses and the milk-flower."

4. If one said to a laborer, "Here! take this aisar(72) and gather greens
for me to-day?" "His hire is allowed." "Gather me for it greens to-day?"
"His hire is forbidden." If one take from the baker a cake for a
pundion(73) (saying), "when I will gather greens of the field I will bring
them to you?" "It is allowed." "If one take bread from the baker in
silence?" "He must not pay him from money of the Sabbatical