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Monday, August 10, 2026

Who said you're not allowed?

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?
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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 teach 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.



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Who said you're not allowed?

Parshas Hashavua שופטים לא תשחית את עצה - כי ממנו תאכל ואתו לא תכר...