Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:

Israel,  Shemittah 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Shemitta 2014

References: Pesachim: 26a ,  Bava Kamma: 101b ,  Nidah: 8a ,  Succah: 40a ,  Succah: 40b  

Description

Do flowers - fragrant and otherwise - have kedushat sheviit? And if they don't, is there any reason why I would not be allowed to buy them or benefit from them? First half is <a href="http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/835524/Rabbi%20Mordechai%20Torczyner/Issues%20in%20Shemitah:%20Besamim%20and%20Flowers,%20Part%201"><b>here</b></a>.