#5487 - Plant a Seed of Doubt in Your Mind?

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