Explanation in Mishnah Sheviit
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Question
Hello, In Mishnah Sheviit, Chapter 7, Mishnah 1, we learn that if a person sells fruits that have the sanctity of the seventh year, the sanctity transfers to the money received. This means that if at the time he has the money, the fruit is finished from the field, the person must destroy the money. Question 1: What does it mean to destroy the money? To make the money ownerless? Additionally: in the case where the person bought other goods (milk or wheat) with this money. It is known that the purchased item also receives the sanctity of the seventh year, and the money becomes ordinary. Question 2: If, for example, he bought milk. How can the sanctity of the seventh year apply to the milk? If, for example, the milk is finished from the field, does he need to destroy the milk? Or if the original fruit he sold is finished? Question 3: If he bought specifically wheat with the money, how does the sanctity of the seventh year apply to it? When the wheat is finished from the field, does he need to make the purchased wheat ownerless? Thank you very much.
Answer
Hello
1. Either purchase food with this money and distribute to each person an amount sufficient for three meals, or destroy the money by throwing it into the Dead Sea.
2. The milk receives the sanctity of the seventh year, and its time of destruction is when the first fruit is finished from the field.
3. When the first species is finished from the field
Source
Rambam, Shemitah and Yovel, Chapter 7, Laws 7-8