## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 195

###### Sifrei Devarim 195:1
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(דברים כ ו) **וּמִי הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר נָטַע**, אֵין לִי אֶלָּא נָטַע. יָרַשׁ, לָקַח, נִתַּן לוֹ בְּמַתָּנָה מִנַּיִן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **וּמִי הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר נָטַע**.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 195**³¹⁰
1. **“Who is the man who has *planted* a vineyard” (Dt. 20:6)?**
**I might infer only that**
**[this exemption] applies to**
**one who *planted* a vineyard!**
**On what basis do I know to include**
**one who *inherited* the vineyard,**
**one who *purchased* the vineyard,,**
**or one who *received it* as a gift?**
**The Teaching states:**
**“Who has *planted*” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**[*planting* includes any form of acquisition of the vineyard].**³¹¹ 194.1.

footnotes:
³¹⁰ H:215-216; JN2:84-85.
³¹¹ //M. Sotah 8:2. Cf. Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:2
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**כֶּרֶם**, אֵין לִי אֶלָּא כֶּרֶם. מִנַּיִן לְנוֹטֵעַ חֲמִשָּׁה אִילָנֵי מַאֲכָל, וַאֲפִלּוּ מֵחֲמֵשֶׁת הַמִּינִים? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **אֲשֶׁר נָטַע**. יָכוֹל אַף הַנּוֹטֵעַ אַרְבָּעָה אִילָנֵי מַאֲכָל וַחֲמִשָּׁה אִילָנֵי סְרָק? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **כֶּרֶם**.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“A *vineyard*” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**I might infer only that**
**this exemption applies to a *vineyard*.**
**On what basis do I know to include**
**one planting five fruit trees,**
**even if they are five separate kinds?**
**The Teaching states:**
**“Who has planted” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**[thus the exemption extends to orchards].**
**If so, is it possible to say that**
**[this exemption applies]**
**even to the planter of four fruit trees**
**or five shade trees?**³¹²
**The Teaching states:**
**“A *vineyard*” (Dt. 20:6)—**

footnotes:
³¹² Cf. M. Sotah 8:2.


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:3
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רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר: אֵין לִי בְמַשְׁמָע אֶלָּא כֶּרֶם.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**R. Eliezer b. Jacob says:**
**I interpret *vineyard* to mean just that!**³¹³ 194.2.

footnotes:
³¹³ Cf. T. Sotah 7:18 and Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:4
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**וְלֹא חִלְּלוֹ** – פְּרָט לְמַבְרִיךְ; **וְלֹא חִלְּלוֹ** – פְּרָט לְמַרְכִּיב.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
2. **“And who hasn’t yet awaited the**
**[four years of its] deconsecration for common use?” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**this excludes [from exemption] anyone**
**who trains shoots [beneath the ground]**
**or who grafts [saplings prior to deconsecration].**³¹⁴

footnotes:
³¹⁴ //M. Sotah 8:2.


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:5
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**יֵלֵךְ וְיָשֹׁב לְבֵיתוֹ** – יֵלֵךְ וְיִשְׁמַע דִּבְרֵי כֹּהֵן מֵעֶרְכֵי הַמִּלְחָמָה וְיַחֲזֹר.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“He shall go and return to his home” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**that is, he shall go and heed**
**the instructions of the Warrior Priest to return.**


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:6
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**פֶּן יָמוּת בַּמִּלְחָמָה** – אִם לֹא יִשְׁמַע לְדִבְרֵי כֹהֵן, לְסוֹף הוּא מֵת בַּמִּלְחָמָה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“Lest he die in battle” (Dt. 20:6)—failing to heed**
**the instructions of the Warrior Priest,**
**he will eventually die in battle.**³¹⁵ 194.2

footnotes:
³¹⁵ Cf. Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 195:7
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**וְאִישׁ אַחֵר יְחַלְּלֶנּוּ** – יָכוֹל דּוֹדוֹ וּבֶן דּוֹדוֹ? נֶאֱמַר כָּאן ״אַחֵר״ וְנֶאֱמַר לְהַלָּן (דברים כ ז) ״אַחֵר״, מָה אַחֵר הָאָמוּר לְהַלָּן נָכְרִי, אַף אַחֵר הָאָמוּר כָּאן נָכְרִי.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
3. **“And another man will deconsecrate it” (Dt. 20:6)—**
**is it possible to say that**
**his uncle or cousin might take the vineyard? Here it is stated:**
**“*Another man* will deconsecrate it” (Dt. 20:6),**
**and elsewhere it is stated:**
**“*Another man* will take her” (Dt. 20:7; cf. Dt. 28:30)—**
**just as the *other man* discussed elsewhere**
**implies *a stranger*,**
**so, too, the *other man* discussed here**
**implies *a stranger*.”**³¹⁶

footnotes:
³¹⁶ //T. Sotah 7:22.