[Avodah] [Areivim] Oranges from Israel

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:24:05AM -0800, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:14 PM, SBA <sba at sba2.com> wrote:
: Would Orlah actually be an issue, or could we just say hakol d'parish merubo
: parish and assume that most of the fruit is coming from more established
: trees?

In EY, and if the field is owned by a Jew, you have to worry about orlah
because they're qavu'ah, not parish. If the field is owned by a non-Jew,
the safeiq becomes real after it was already away from the tree and in
a pile with the rest of them -- so you can rely on rov.

In chu"l there is a special halakhah leMosheh miSinai that limits the
issur to vadai orlah. So even kol qavuah kemechtzah al mechtzah dami is
enough to matir fruit grown by a Jew in chu"l.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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