It's dangerous

 

Parshas Hashavua שופטים לא תשחית את עצה- כי ממנו תאכל ואתו לא תכרת  דברים כ: י"ט The ט"ז (Y.D.116:6) writes, שאסרו חז"ל מפני הסכנה שלא לקוץ" אילן העושה פירות" "Chazal forbade because of סכנה  to cut down fruit trees"  Isn't it the Torah who forbade  cutting down fruit trees? Perhaps, if we change just one letter the  סמך to a מם and instead of שאסרו" חז"ל מפני הסכנה" we change it to שאמרו" חז"ל שלא לקוץ אילן מפני הסכנה", would solve the קושיא  on the ט"ז. It is the Torah that forbade us from cutting off the fruit tree. It is Chazal who said* that it is a סכנה* to cut off the fruit tree. אמבצי *As far as I know, this is the only Mitzvah in the Torah where Chazal teaches us that it is dangerous to be עובר the עבירה ** Most Poskim including the ט"ז allow cutting off the tree when the benefit outweighs the value of the tree. They are not concerned in such cases for סכנה. R.Y. Hachasid writes even in such cases one should not cut off the tree because of סכנה.