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Ibn Ezra on Leviticus 25:29/אבן עזרא על ויקרא כ״ה:כ״ט
אעיר חומה. עיר מוקפת:
1IN A WALLED CITY. A city surrounded by a wall.119 (a dwelling-house in a walled city). Bet moshav ir chomah literally means a dwelling-house in a city wall. Hence I.E.’s comment.
בימים. שנה עד שוב הימים מקור וחום וקיץ וחורף כאשר היו כי סבתם שוב השמש למקומה והנה אנחנו צריכים לקבלה על שנה תמימה אם לחמה אם ללבנה ואם מעוברת:
2A FULL YEAR. The word yamim120 means a year. Yamim means until the days return to their point of departure after completing their cycle of cold and hot, summer and winter, for the return of the sun to its place121 is the cause of this cycle.122 Now, we need tradition as to what determines a full year,123 whether it is a solar year, or a lunar year, or an intercalated year.124 9:3, “Rabbi says: He is allowed a year and its intercalary month (i.e., the extra days by which the solar year exceeds the lunar year).”