Hello Everyone,
Welcome to this series of shiurim on the subject of gardening and the prohibition of Kilayim- the “mixing of species.”
These halachot are very interesting. If a person lives in Israel and wishes to plant vegetables then she or he must make themselves familiar with these Halachot because Kilayim is on of the mitzvot which are obligatory in the the Land of Israel. Bit even if someone lives in the Exile of New Jersey, asides from the mitzvah to learn Torah, the laws of Kilayim are interesting because they are a window to how the sages of the Talmud viewed nature. To be more specific, the laws of Kilayim are based on the taxonomy of those sages.
In these three sessions we will discuss both the practical halachot and the remarkable system of classification to be found here.