Cooking a Mixture of Shemitah Vegetables
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Question
I cooked vegetables to soften them. There were many vegetables from abroad, but there was also one carrot from a non-Jew that is sanctified with the holiness of the Shemitah year. What is the status of all the vegetables and the liquid [the liquid is edible and tasty, but no one in our household eats vegetable soup]?
Answer
If the entire dish contains 60 times the volume of the carrot, there is no Shemitah sanctity in the liquid or the vegetables, unless I added the carrot to impart a carrot flavor to all the vegetables. If there is less than 60 times the volume in the entire dish, both the liquid and the vegetables are sanctified with Shemitah holiness. For example, if the carrot sanctified with Shemitah holiness has a volume of 0 ml, and the total volume of the liquid and dish is more than 0.8 liters, only the carrot is sanctified. If the total volume of the dish and liquid is less than this measure, everything is sanctified with Shemitah holiness.
Source
Rambam (Shemitah, Chapter 7, Laws 21-22; Chapter 5, Law 22); Azmera Leshimcha (Shemitah, Issue 3).