Orlah
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(lit. "uncircumcised"---the fruit of a tree during its first three years). Tenth tractate of Order Zera'Im in the Mishnah. Its three chapters discuss the laws forbidding the derivation of any benefit from fruit trees in Erets Israel during the first three years of growth (cf. Lev. 19:23-25). The Mishnah describes which trees are exempt from the laws of orlah, the law applying to mixtures of orlah with other tithes or permitted fruits, and using orlah-fruit dye or cooking food over a fire fueled by orlah-fruit peelings. The law against using orlah is a rabbinic injunction also outside Israel. The subject-matter is amplified in the Jerusalem Talmud and the Tosefta.
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Orlah (Hebrew: ערלה, lit. "Blockage of Trees") is the tenth tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. It discusses the laws pertaing to any fruit bearing tree, whose fruits cannot be eaten during the first three years the tree produces fruit. This law applies everywhere and for all time in Jewish communities and for any fruit bearing tree owned by a Jew. Then it discusses the laws of "Neta Revai", by which produce of the fourth year is to be treated like "Maaser Sheni".
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