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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine" <A href="mailto:Larry.Levine@stevens.edu">Larry.Levine@stevens.edu</A><BR><BR>>>>
The conclusions at the end of the article at
<BR>http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/rmjBroydeTerumah.pdf that Chana
<BR>Luntz referred us to really sum up this issue. ...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR>.... (f) For the year 5754 (1993-1994) there might be no
obligation<BR>because it is a shemita year.<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Produce grown in a shmittah year raises a host of other questions,
besides terumos uma'asros, giving greater force to the statement quoted in Rav
Schwab's name, "If you buy a pound of Israeli tomatoes you buy a pound of
problems." (Something like that.) </DIV>
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<DIV>The farmer who grew the produce maybe should not have done so, and there is
then a question of whether the produce may be eaten. And if it may be
eaten, does it have kedushas shevi'is, necessitating extra care and knowledge in
the disposal of waste? </DIV>
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<DIV>I sort of feel the way Prof Levine does, that I lack the knowledge and
experience to handle Israeli fruits and vegetables, so on the rare occasion that
I see Israeli oranges or peppers in the supermarket, I avoid buying them.
However, I try to buy Israeli goods whenever I can, and almost all canned and
packaged products from Israel do have good hechsherim.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------
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