Suppose a tenant farmer leased a field from his fellow but did not want to weed it and said to the landowner, "What concern is it of yours since I am committed to giving you your full rental?". In that case, we do not listen to him, for the landowner can reply, "If your lease expires and you don't renew it, the field will grow weeds for me."
If a sharecropper leases a field from his fellow and it does not produce a substantial crop, he wants to abandon working the field. If there is enough growing in it to produce a heap, he is obligated to care for it. Rabbi Yehudah says, "What kind of limit is a heap? Rather, if there is enough for sowing the field again."
Art: Haystack, Pontoise by Camille Pissarro
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