3,736. What Shemittah Produce Can Be Used For

Hilchos Shemittah v’Yoveil 5:1

Shemittah produce is given for eating, drinking, anointing, lighting lamps and dyeing. Our oral tradition teaches that the word tihiyeh (“it will be” – Lev. 25:7) comes to include lighting lamps and dyeing.

Hilchos Shemittah v’Yoveil 5:2

Eating and drinking means that one may eat the foods that are normally eaten and drink the beverages that are normally drunk, the same as with terumah and second tithe.