Patricia Heil asked:
This weekend R. Grossman went through Bava Kamma 6b and 7a/b where it discusses using the best "of one's field" to pay damages, middling land to pay debts and the worst land to pay a ketubbah. Since the verse says "one's field and one's vineyard," does that mean the land has to have a crop in the ground?
The Kollel replies:
The land does not need to have a crop. The Torah merely uses these terms to designate land.
Dov Freedman