3,164. Forgetting Grain in Front and Behind

Hilchos Matnos Aniyim 5:9

If grain was harvested as animal feed before it fully matured, shich’cha doesn’t apply. The same is true if one makes small bundles of stalks as he harvests without binding them into sheaves, or if he plucks garlic or onions and makes small bundles of them to sell in the market rather than binding them into large sheaves for storage.

Hilchos Matnos Aniyim 5:10

If someone starts harvesting from the beginning of the row and he forgot grain both in front of and behind him, what’s behind him is shich’cha but what’s in front of him isn’t. This is derived from Deuteronomy 24:19: “Do not go back to take it.” Something only becomes shich’cha if he has passed it and leaves it behind. The general rule is that whenever “Do not go back” applies, something is shich’cha. If “Do not go back” doesn’t apply, it’s not shich’cha.