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Q. Kvodo Shlit’a. I have a
question on the summer days we buy flower pots and also use planters.
My kids like to plant on some big ones and planters, different types,
of even small fruit plants and trees. Is there a prohibition of
Kelaim on them if the are planted in a large planter or even if you
join two small planters together at home or over the back yard
plastic material deck?A.
Even the basic laws kelaim which involve planting different types of
trees and fruit plants together are many and complicated to deal with
in just a few lines and when they do apply.
Poskim
mention that although the Torah writes that the prohibition is
“Sodecha Lo Tizra Kelaim” (Vayikra 19: 19), mentioning that it
applies to a field (and a similar expression is mentioned regarding
a vineyard), it would seem that it applies to a field and to the
inside of a house.
Tzofnas
Paneach on the Rambam (H. Kelaim 5: 16) mentions that indeed Torah
forbidden Kelaim apply only on the outside fields and on homes or
other inside types of structures that prohibition is only Rabbical.
However Yeshuas Malko (ibid.) and others disagree and they maintain
that it is also a Biblical prohibition. See also Minchas Shlomo
(2:
101: 10). Variables as the connection to the ground of the plant to
the ground and the kind of grounf are important.
Much
has been written about the prohibition a Shemita (Seventh Year) on
plants kept at home.
Rabbi
A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam,
Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs
Shlit’a.
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