The rabbis began a course on agricultural mitzvot sponsored by the Institute of the Torah and the Land. The course began with a full day seminar in the South at the Institute's headquarters where their experimental greenhouses are located. These greenhouses are used to grow insect free leafy vegetables as well as to determine whether certain kinds of new fruit bearing plants that growers wish to grow in Israel are considered by Jewish Law to be fruits or vegetables. Pictured here are the rabbis looking at Goji berry plants. If these berries are determined to be fruits by Jewish law then their produce would be forbidden for the first three years due to the Torah prohibition of Orlah. The rabbis heard lectures from the Institute's agronomist, Moti Shomron, and the Institute's director, Rabbi Yehuda Amichai.
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