JNF chairman Avraham Duvdevani said that although the JNF normally abstains from planting trees on shemittah, exception is made for trees planted for security reasons or to protect land from illegal incursion.
By the same token, MK Itamar Ben-Gvir of Religious Zionism and other MKs traveled to the Negev amid the Arab rioting to participate in tree planting. Ben-Gvir said he had received a psak from Rav Dov Lior, the former rov of Chevron and Kiryat Arba, that the struggle for Eretz Yisroel has precedence over shemittah observance.
In response, Rav Yosef Efrati wrote that there is no heter to plant trees to prevent non-Jews seizing land, since the same could be achieved by having guards patrol the area.
{Matzav.com Israel}
can rav lior have a different psak.??
is that not allowed in your minds???
The Torah says “No planting”. Period. There is no exemption.
Working through an Otzar Beis Din allows you to work the fields to an extent, but plants and trees which do not bear fruit are not part of the Otzar Beis Din framework, so you couldn’t even use that as a bypass.
It’s not a matter of having a different psak, it’s a matter of allowing political considerations cloud the subject.
Umm, Alex, the Mishnah in Shevi’is 6:1 says otherwise (as does the Rambam), that there are exceptions — and the area where these trees were planted might very well be one of them. Of course, one could disagree about the psak in this case, as one could disagree with Rav Efrati’s, but it’s a good idea to know what one is talking about beforehand, especially before saying that Rav Lior, unlike Rav Efrati !!!!!, is allowing political considerations to cloud the subject.
Here’s a a partial list of Rav Lior’s seforim, which are very much driven by his intense interest in the mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisroel, which you call “politics” and which he calls a mitzva d’Orayssa:
מספריו
שו”ת דבר חברון:
חלק א’ – על חלקי אבן העזר וחושן משפט מהשולחן ערוך, קריית ארבע, תשס”ה;
חלק ב’ – על חלק אורח חיים, קריית ארבע תשס”ט;
חלק ג’ – על יורה דעה ועל ענייני התקופה, קריית ארבע תשע”א;
חלק ד’ – השקפה וענייני אמונה (קובץ שיחות מכתבים ומאמרים), קריית ארבע תשע”ב;
חלק ה – בנושא המועדים, תשע”ד;
חלק ו- כרך נוסף על יורה דעה.
רוב הכרכים יצאו בהוצאת המכון לרבני יישובים בקריית ארבע, מלבד כרכים ג’ וה’ שיצאו בהוצאת הקרן להוצאת כתבי הרב ליאור. הספר קיבל את הסכמתם של הרב מרדכי אליהו, הרב אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא והרב שלמה עמאר.
ספרי שיעורים ופסקי הלכה למועדי השנה:
חגי תשרי – שיעורים ופסקי הלכה על ראש השנה, יום כיפור וסוכות
ימי החנוכה – שיעורים ופסקי הלכה
דרשת שבת הגדול – הגדה של פסח עם פסקי הלכה
יום העצמאות ויום ירושלים – שיעורים ופסקי הלכה
חנוך לנער – שו”ת לילדי ישראל
דבר חברון על פרשיות השבוע. בהוצאת דברי שיר, תשפ”א[60].
פסקיו ומאמריו הובאו גם בשו”תים “במראה הבזק” ו”המורים בקשת”, וכן בכתב העת של ישיבת ניר, “עלוני ממרא”.
Religious Zionist idolatry is not a valid reason to override anything, let alone an entire body of halacha that is shemita.
politics interferes with clear-headed pesak
JNF did not desecrate Shemittah.
The planting took place in the Negev, in accordance with Rav Lior’s psak that tree planting would be permitted south of Beer Sheva as part of the struggle with the Bedouins over control over the Negev and as part of the MITZVAH of settling Eretz Yisroel, which is Torah-mandated, while Shemittah is not only d’Rabbonon, but might not apply at all south of Beer Sheva, which is where the planting took place.
Alex:
Please mishna Shevi’is chapter 6, especially 6:1,and Rambam Shevi’is v’Yoveil chapter 4.
And see my comment below.
anything to do with the Zionists is assur bdoraisa and yaharog val yavor.
Including saving one’s life on Kasztner’s train?
Alex you are wrong as explained by Rav lior- he is not my posek but JNF can really on him.
sorry not that you do not respect him or his psak. that’s your issue. Charedim do not have a monopoly on poskeim.
BTWY Rav LIOR is Chardal. go back to your cave.
again he disagreed with your poskeim. he is allowed to. and JNF which most of the readers here do not respect anyway can follow him Why do the need to follow UTJ
He is a “Religious Zionist”. Their faith is, unfortunately, different than Judaism.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Duh, to get to the other side.