(Mishnah): One may work on detached but not attached produce in Suria. One may thresh, winnow, tread and pile up but one may not harvest grains, grapes or olives.

(R. Akiva): Any work that is permitted (Min HaTorah but prohibited MiD'Rabbanan) in Eretz Yisrael may be done in Suria.

(Gemara) (R. Abahu): (The Mishnah taught that) in Suria, one may work on detached (but not attached produce.) The reason that attached is prohibited is to prevent the Jews of Eretz Yisrael from going there to avoid the difficulty of keeping Shemita and then eventually settling there.

Question: So why is it permitted when detached?

Answer: If they wouldn't permit it, a poor man might go to Chutz LaAretz and settle there; but if he can earn a small amount close by (in Suria by working with detached produce), he will do so rather than go further afield. (But on the hand, there's no concern that for a small earning he would actually settle there in Suria).

Question (R. Yosi bei R. Bun to R. Mana): May one grind a gentile's produce together with him in Eretz Yisrael?

Answer (R. Mana): Our Mishnah shows that it is prohibited, as it taught that in Suria (where most fields belong to gentiles), one may work on detached but not attached produce. This shows that in contrast, in Eretz Yisrael, working with detached produce is prohibited.

An area (that was conquered at the time of Yehoshua but not at the time of Ezra) where the produce may be eaten but the land not worked (MiD'Rabbanan) - may one hire out his animal there (to a person suspected in the laws of Sheviis)?

R. Levi Tzubaria asked this question to R. Yitzchak and R. Imi and they prohibited it.

R. Hoshiya paid money so that his animal wouldn't be taken for the king's work - not because one may not hire it out to an idolater lest it work the land, but rather, because of the prohibition for one's animal to be alone with an idolater (since they are suspected of bestiality). (Note: This entry follows the text and explanation of Rav Chaim Kanievski.)

(The Mishnah taught that in Suria, one may work on detached but not attached produce.) What's the case that is prohibited? If they are 6th year fruits and he's harvesting them in Sheviis, even in Eretz Yisrael this may be done (since they are 6th year produce)?! If they are 7th year and he's harvesting them in the 8th year, is it permitted to plow in the 8th year but not to harvest?

Answer: It's referring to Sheviis fruits during Sheviis. (Sefichin - things that grew naturally in Sheviis may be eaten in Suria.)

R. Chanina went to Tzur and he prohibited them to water their fields.

R. Yosi heard this and said that it's correct - as isn't watering considered working on attached produce?!

Question: Didn't the Mishnah teach that one may water irrigated fields on Chol HaMoed and in Sheviis? (So why did R. Chanina simply state that it's prohibited?)

(R. Yudan): (When the Mishnah permitted watering even in Eretz Yisrael) it is only for the seeds (to prevent them from becoming ruined but not when it improves the earth).

Question (R. Mana): If so, for the same reason, it should also be permitted to plow (around the field for the furrows to fill with water)? (The Gemara leaves this question unanswered.)

(Mishnah): If rain fell on onions and they grew, if their leaves are black, they are prohibited; if they are pale, they are permitted.

(R. Chanina ben Antignus): If they can be plucked (from the ground) by their leaves, they are prohibited. And if he plucked them in Sheviis and then replanted them after Sheviis (and they grew, if their leaves are black), they are permitted.

(Gemara): 'Black' and 'pale' means that if they began turning black, they are prohibited; as long as they are still pale, they are permitted.

(R. Yosi citing R. Yochanan): An onion that was uprooted (and tithed) and replanted - when its leaves have blackened (which indicates that it just grew) the entire onion must be tithed (since the original onion growth is now annulled to what recently grew).

(R. Chiya citing R. Yochanan): An onion that was uprooted (and tithed) and replanted - when it has taken root (even if the leaves haven't blackened), the entire onion must be tithed.

Question: (The Mishnah taught that if he plucked them in Sheviis and then replanted them after Sheviis (and they grew, if their leaves are black), they are permitted.) If an onion grew in the 6th year, it was uprooted in the 7th year (after growing slightly) and was then replanted in the 8th year (we say that what grew in the 8th year annuls and permits that which grew in the 7th). Do we also say this about an onion that was planted in the 7th year and was then uprooted and replanted in the 8th year (when it also grew) that it annuls and permits that which was planted and grew in the 7th year?

(R. Zeira): Since the permitted growths are the majority, they annul the prohibition (even if it was planted in Sheviis).

(R. Ila/ R. Imi): (No, if it was planted in Sheviis) it is prohibited.

Question (Mishnah): The general rule of R. Shimon in the name of R. Yehoshua, is that anything that could become permitted, such as Tevel (by tithing it), Maaser Sheni (by redeeming it onto coins), Hekdesh (by redeeming it onto coins) and Chadash (that is permitted after the 16th of Nisan) - the Chachamim didn't specify an amount that is able to annul them- so that if one of them became mixed with something permitted of its type, the mixture is prohibited and it's not annulled in a majority. And if it mixed with another type, the mixture is prohibited if the prohibited item can be tasted.

And anything that can never become permitted, such as Terumah, Challah, Orlah and Kilayim, the Chachamim specified an amount that is able to annul - with its own type (depending on the specific prohibition - e.g. Terumah in 100), and with another type, it's prohibited if it can be tasted.

Question (Chachamim to R. Shimon): Sheviis can never become permitted, but they also didn't specify an amount that is able to annul them?

Response (R. Shimon to Chachamim): Sheviis is different as that law that it cannot be annulled only applies to Biur (the requirement to remove it - so that if it became mixed even with a large quantity of non-Sheviis produce, the entire mixture is prohibited); but as for (the requirement of) eating (such produce with the sanctity of Sheviis, whatever the mixture), it's only prohibited if it can be tasted.

Conclusion of question: How do R. (H)ila and R. Imi explain this? (It's clear from R. Shimon that the sanctity of Sheviis is annulled if against a majority (as long as it cannot be tasted), so why would they say that if the onion grew more in the 8th year and the growths are now the majority of the onion, that it would still be prohibited?)

Answer: R. Shimon was referring to a mixture, but a case of growth has an extra stringency.

Proof: R. Zeira cited from R. Yochanan that if an onion of Kilai HaKerem (prohibited as it was planted in a vineyard) was uprooted and planted elsewhere and grew there, even if it grew much larger than it was originally, it is still prohibited, as the prohibited core cannot be annulled by the new growth.

Question: There's a Baraisa that disagrees with R. Zeira - a Mishnah states (Maseches Terumos) - Growths from Terumah are like Terumah itself; but what grows from those growths are Chulin. But if Tevel was replanted, its growths are not Tevel (meaning that until they themselves reach their own obligation in Terumos and Ma'asros, they may be eaten in snack form); or Maaser Rishon (before its Terumas Maaser was taken); replanted Sefichin of Sheviis; Terumas Maaser; Medumah (a mixture of Terumah and Chulin) and Bikurim - their growths are Chulin.

And the Baraisa teaches - when is this the case (that growths of Tevel etc. are Chulin)? When the seed dissolves, but if it remains intact (such as in the case of an onion), the growths are also prohibited. (If so, growths from Sefichin of an onion of Sheviis are not permitted?!)

Conclusion of question: How can R. Zeira understand this?

Answer: The Baraisa is referring to the obligation of Biur of Sheviis - that growths of growths must also be removed; but as to the prohibition of eating Sefichin, since the new growth is the majority, the onion may be eaten.

R. Abahu went to Arbel and was hosted by Abba bar Binyamin. They asked him about onions that grew in Sheviis that were uprooted and replanted in the 8th year and then grew further. He ruled like R. Zeira that since the new growth is the majority, the onion is permitted. He later saw that they were going to rely on him to eat the onions. He told them that he had only permitted Murkanim (onions that had their heads bent over before they were replanted, showing that the owner didn't wish them to grow more. But if not, since the owner's intent was that they continue to grow and annul the prohibited part, they are prohibited - as one may not intentionally annul Issur.)

(R. Yehuda ben Pazi): I know the beginning and end of the ruling of R. Abahu - originally he ruled like R. Zeira, that growths of onions of Sheviis are permitted - since he didn't know that R. Ila and R. Imi disagreed with him. When he heard that they disagreed with R. Zeira, R. Abahu retracted his ruling and only permitted the onions if the owner had bent over their heads before replanting them.