[Photos below.] If esrogim were sold by weight, this one would fetch a pretty penny – or shekel.
Kikar Shabbat reports that a grower of esrogim from Bnei Brak paid a visit to the home of Maran Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, senior rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Orchos Torah, to show him an esrog weighing a whopping 16 and a half pounds, or 7.5 kilograms. Rav Shteinman responded with a wide smile, as onlookers watched the esrog grower present Rav Shteinman with a number of other large esrogim.
The 16-and-a-half pound pri eitz hadar is kosher, according to one source, though it is not mehudar.
See below for photos of the visit and the gargantuan esrog:
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
Did he use it to make the blessing?
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“The 16-and-a-half pound pri eitz hadar is kosher, according to one source, though it is not mehudar.”
I’m pretty sure Taimanin hold bigger esrogim to be more mehudar.