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152:, and that early harvesting would conflict with careful cultivation and pruning during the first three years in order to insure later good harvests and allow maturing of the trees. Grape vines produce fruit in three to six years, almond trees produce some flower buds in the fourth year and some fruit in the fifth, and sources from the 220:
Conceal (a) safek (uncertain orlah), and destroy what is orlah for certain, and publicize on their produce that its burial is required. And anybody who says that there is no (prohibition) of orlah outside the land of Israel will not (merit to have) either a great-grandchild or grandchild who cast
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Judaism and modernization on the religious kibbutz p127 Aryei Fishman - 1992 For example, the laws of "uncircumcised fruit" (Leviticus 19:23- 24) have always been observed literally. And although the Rabbinate has allowed the sale of such fruit to Gentiles, accepted policy is to destroy it, to
275:, (a "second crop" enzyme extracted from the papaya peel, used in beer, biscuits, and as a digestive aid) is likewise under rabbinic scrutiny as a dilution ratio of 200:1 (200 non-orlah fruit to 1 part orlah) is required to permit orlah, essentially prohibiting benefiting from this enzyme. 172:
stipulates that Orlah fruit must be burnt to guarantee that no one benefits from them, and even a garment dyed by way of pigment derived from Orlah is to be destroyed. The ancient custom in the Land of Israel was to mark the ground surrounding Orlah-plantings with crushed potsherds
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fruit is a subject of rabbinic dispute, as most of its fruit is harvested in the first three years after planting. Some rabbinic authorities maintain that the papaya is not a tree, thus making it orlah-exempt, whereas most rule that the laws of orlah do apply to the papaya.
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Howard Eilberg-Schwartz - 1990 "Grape seedlings produce fruit in three to six years, and almond trees produce some flower buds in the fourth year and some fruit in the fifth (Janick and Moore 1975, 138, 396). Ancient sources confirm that ancient fruit trees produced
370:- 2000 "Careful cultivation and pruning was necessary during the first three years in order to insure eventual good harvests and proper maturing of the trees. The fruit during this period could not be eaten and was declared unclean (literally, 'uncircumcised.') 400:
Leviticus p260 Mark F. Rooker, Dennis R. Cole - 2000 "155 In the Code of Hammurabi #60 it was legislated that a gardener who was also a tenant could not eat of the fruit of his orchard until the fifth year, when he shared the produce with the
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suggest that a good crop of dates was expected in the fourth year. In discussing the commandment that the fruit could not actually be eaten until the fifth year, Rooker (2000) notes that in the
263:(or a result of orlah usage such as dye, etc.), the mishna prescribes that such product is permitted for consumption so long as the actual removal of orlah product is not "seen" being picked. 329:
within three years of its planting (Lev 19:23). According to rabbinic interpretation of "fourth-year planting" (neta revai) ...may only be eaten in Jerusalem unless it is redeemed.
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fruit (lit. "uncircumcised" fruit) is a command found in the Bible not to eat fruit produced by a tree during the first three years after planting.
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stipulates that "safek orlah" (uncertainty if the product is indeed orlah) is permitted outside of the land of Israel. However,
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a tenant-gardener could not eat of the fruit of an orchard until the fifth year, when he shared the produce with the owner.
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p134-135 2011 "The biblical law of "uncircumcised" fruit (orlah) prohibits consuming fruit picked from a tree in the
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held the opinion that the prohibition of orlah does not apply outside the land of Israel.
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Shevat Halevi 6:165; Mishpetei Aretz, page 27, quoting Rav Elyashiv; Teshuvos VeHanhagos
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has allowed the sale of such fruit to non-Jews, but the usual policy is to destroy it.
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Responsa Rav Pe’alim (vol. 2, Orach Chayim #30), responsa Yechaveh Daath 4:52
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Prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day
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as meaning "hidden and sealed" and it alludes to the creation itself.
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literally means "uncircumcised". The use of this term is explained by
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The savage in Judaism: an anthropology of Israelite religion
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is listed in the category of prohibitions pertaining to the
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The Ivp Bible Background Commentary: Genesis-Deuteronomy
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture
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property ownership in the lot of the congregation of
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Code of Hammurabi, as translated by L. W. King, #60.
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Index

Mishnah
Orlah (Mishnayoth)
Halakhic
Torah
Leviticus 19:23–25
Mishnah
Orlah
Jerusalem Talmud
Shulchan Aruch
Yoreh De'ah
Hebrew
613 commandments
Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz
good agricultural practice
Ancient Near East
Code of Hammurabi
Mishna
Sifra
Rosh HaShana
Tu Bishvat
Jerusalem Talmud
Rabbi Yochanan
Rav Yehudah
Babylonian Talmud
HaShem
Land of Israel
law given to Moses at Sinai
Eliezer ben Hurcanus
papaya
Papain

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