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October 13, 2016 8:11 pm at 8:11 pm #618518Mashiach AgentMember
Why doesn’t your local supermarket sell Esrogim in the fruit department?
October 13, 2016 10:44 pm at 10:44 pm #1186833JosephParticipantToo exotic.
October 13, 2016 11:47 pm at 11:47 pm #1186834lesschumrasParticipantThey’re lousy fruits, largely inedible
It’s almost all rind
October 14, 2016 3:29 am at 3:29 am #1186835Mashiach AgentMemberdo you know ANY other fruits that they don’t sell at the supermarkets cause their too exotic? i don’t
October 14, 2016 10:32 am at 10:32 am #1186836ubiquitinParticipantMA
Your question doesnt really make sense
A fruit, is by definition food. An Esrog isnt really edible, it certainly isnt eaten (if you need to soak in in sugar that deosnt count, a car tire would be edible if soaked in sugar) Thus it isnt a fruit.
Supermarkets dotn sell tose berries you see growing on bushes in abandoned lots, becasue they arent edible.
Of course a fruit is also the part of a plant that contains seeds, but there are many such fruit that arent sold
October 14, 2016 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm #1186837MenoParticipant“do you know ANY other fruits that they don’t sell at the supermarkets cause their too exotic? i don’t”
No, and I’m sure you wouldn’t know anything about an esrog if it wasn’t required by the Torah. It likely wouldn’t even exist anymore.
October 14, 2016 2:51 pm at 2:51 pm #1186838Mashiach AgentMemberMeno
So I guess in your case it’s the Jewish Esrog sellers that make sure each year that esrogim. Are being planted by the millions etc… And not forgotten
October 14, 2016 3:06 pm at 3:06 pm #1186839MenoParticipant“So I guess in your case it’s the Jewish Esrog sellers that make sure each year that esrogim. Are being planted by the millions etc… And not forgotten”
That’s exactly right.
The esrogim we buy are grown in Jewish orchards. They have to be, in order that we can ensure that they are not murkav. If we didn’t need esrogim for Sukkos, there would be no reason for these orchards to exist. And since esrogim aren’t really good for anything else (besides maybe smelling nice), they would probably just go extinct.
October 14, 2016 3:35 pm at 3:35 pm #1186840zahavasdadParticipantI have seen them sold
They have some uses like for Jams or Liquor
October 14, 2016 6:05 pm at 6:05 pm #1186841flatbusherParticipantMaybe they will someday but really because of what’s involved–and the competition from pop-up stores and street vendors–probably not worth it. SUpermarkerts in Israel don’t sell them either, from what I remember.
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