שביעית

Tractate Sheviit

Mishnah Sheviit, the fifth tractate of Seder Zeraim, develops the laws of the sabbatical year and the cancellation of debts it brings about. Its 10 chapters and 89 mishnayot likewise have no Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud.

Start: Sheviit 1:1

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Sheviit – Chapter 1

Work on trees that must stop as the sabbatical year approaches.

Sheviit – Chapter 2

Work on fallow fields and the time limit before the seventh year begins.

Sheviit – Chapter 3

Restrictions on spreading manure and clearing stones during the sabbatical year.

Sheviit – Chapter 4

The general ban on working the land during the sabbatical year and its exceptions.

Sheviit – Chapter 5

The use of farming tools during the sabbatical year and the work still permitted.

Sheviit – Chapter 6

Regions where the laws of the sabbatical year apply differently, particularly outside the Land of Israel.

Sheviit – Chapter 7

Produce that carries the sanctity of the sabbatical year and the uses permitted for it.

Sheviit – Chapter 8

Biur, the mandatory removal of sabbatical produce once its season of availability ends.

Sheviit – Chapter 9

The precise timing of biur depending on the type of produce and its growing region.

Sheviit – Chapter 10

The cancellation of debts in the seventh year, and the institution of the prozbul that circumvents it.