[Avodah] heter mechira produce

[Goldmeier]

while it keeps getting mentioned in the discussion that shmitta is only 
d'rabanan anyway (and therefore there is room to be meikil), I have not 
heard any Rav use that as a reason to be meikil. I have heard many 
shiurim on shmitta issues leading up to shmitta and asked a number of 
shailos and read books, yet that "svara" has never been mentioned by a 
Rav. I only hear it from laymen (no insult intended - I have said it 
myself in discussion as well and am more of a layman than anyone else on 
Avodah!).

Does anyone know if that svara really applies and is used in piskei 
halacha on shmitta issues? And if not (as I think is the case), why not? 
The fact is it is d'rabbanan, so why do we treat it so seriously?

Kol tuv
Rafi

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