<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 1:19 PM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is it possible that other people have other data, suggesting that Rav Belsky's "30%" figure is unduly high and alarmist? For example, I have learned elsewhere that Hilchos Shemittah only applies to *fragrant* flowers. Could it be that Rav Belsky's "30%" includes non-fragrant flowers, and that the actual percentage of fragrant Israeli flowers is negligible?
<br><br>Akiva Miller<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I confess ignorance to Sheitta laws, but isn't shemitta a function of peiros not flowers?<br>IIRC last shemitta we had to dispose of Esroggim properly but not hadassim - which DO have a fragrance. And re: Lulav v'arava we also did nothing special implying no kedushas shevi'is.
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