[Avodah] [Areivim] kosher cabbage

[Ben Waxman]

I doubt that it was really an issue. How much trade was going on from such a
poor place and even if there were Eretz Yisrael oranges sold in Cairo or
Bagdad, most of the farmers were Arabs.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chana Luntz" <Chana at Kolsassoon.org.uk>
>
 (I imagine this was a halacha l'ma'ase
> question for far more Sephardim than it was for Ashkenazim - given that
> exporting produce as far as Ashkenaz in days gone by was probably pretty
> rare, while to the lands inhabited by Sephardim was probably reasonable
> common).