Orlah 1.3-1.6

A tree could technically be obligated in Orla multiple times, because if a tree is uprooted fully and then replanted elsewhere, so the Orla count starts again.

Every time it is planted, the three years begin again, so for the first three years that it is planted in its new spot, it will be forbidden to benefit from its fruit.

The Mishnah is going to discuss a couple of cases where the tree is replanted, but you won't necessarily have to restart the count of the three years of Orla.

Or if the three years of Ola have been completed already, then you won't have to treat it as Ola at all.

Ilon tshaneaka, a tree which was uprooted.

However, together with the tree, the hasela imoi.

This literally means the rock was with it, and it refers to the earth in which the tree was planted, that was uprooted together with the tree.

So you didn't just take out the roots without any earth, you took out a large amount of earth in which the tree was planted, and you took that, and then you replanted it elsewhere.

If a river flooded and swept away a tree, the earth in which the tree was planted was swept away with it.

So the Mishnah says, if the tree is able to survive in just that earth in which it is still in, so even if it wouldn't be replanted now, it would still be able to survive.

So even if you do replant it, potter, it would still be exempt from Orla, if it has already finished its Orla, or if it's in the middle, then it would just carry on.

because we consider it to be constantly growing, and it never stopped its growth, and it's still really growing in the same piece of earth.

However they amlav, if it wouldn't be able to survive just in that earth, so it has to be planted elsewhere in order to survive, chayev, then it is obligated in Orilor and the count would start again, since this is just like replanting a tree, and so the Orilor count begins once again.

Now what happens if nerka has selah mitzidoy? if the rock, if the earth which was underneath and around the tree, that was uprooted or swept away, but the tree remained in its place.

However, a lot of the earth which was there got uprooted, so now you can see a lot more of the roots of the tree, and the tree is a lot more above the ground than it was previously.

Or if the plow which he was using in his field shook the tree and as such the earth around the tree and below the tree a lot of it scattered away and once again the roots of the tree are much more revealed now or something else caused the tree to shake either a person or the wind and that made the earth by the tree like dust and again it's scattered away and you're left with a tree which is in the same place but it is far less rooted in the ground.

So the Mishnah says once again, if it's able to survive as it is now without you adding more earth to it, so then potto, it's certainly exempt from arlar, you wouldn't have to restart the count of arlar, since it's growing in the same place and you're not replanting it.

And even if you do add earth to it, that's just to protect it and maybe make it grow a bit better, but it will still grow without you doing that.

However, if it is not able to survive without you adding more earth to the roots, then it is obligated you would need to start the three years again, because since it can't survive without you adding the earth, so adding the earth is like replanting it, so it will be obligated in another set of three years of Arla.

Let me show you another case.

In Anshanerkar, a tree which was uprooted, or at least it was mostly uprooted, and so we're discussing where this time the earth stayed there, the earth wasn't the bit which was totally removed, rather the actual tree and its roots was partially uprooted from the ground.

However, although most of it was uprooted, the Nishtar B'Sheiresh one of the roots of the tree remained attached to the ground, and attached to the earth beneath it.

Says the Mishnah Potter, it is exempt from a new count of Arla.

So if it has completed its Arla cycle already, then it's totally exempt from Arla.

And if it's in the middle, then you can just carry on where you're up to.

The reason being that although there's only one root left, and most of them have been uprooted, nevertheless, a tree can survive with just one root.

It'll get all of its nutrients from that one root.

So since it can survive, even if you do add more earth, in order to replant the roots which are uprooted.

Nevertheless, since it can survive anyway without you adding anything, it is exempt from a restarting of the Arlok count.

However, the mission does say that and how, why does the root need to be in order to be able to provide nourishment for the entire tree? And to allow the tree to survive with just one root, says the Mishnah Rebbe Gamliel Oymer.

Rebbe Gamliel says, In the name of Rebbe Loz ben Yehuda who came from Bar Toysa, the width only has to be the width of a needle which is used to stretch out pieces of cloth.

So when someone is weaving, they would use a needle to stretch the fabric sometimes.

So the needle was quite thin, being a needle, but even a root which is that size has enough power to provide the entire tree with nourishment, such that as long as that is still connected, you do not need to restart the Orla three-year count.