Tom Etrog

This is the fifth segment of an ongoing Talmud Series on The Etrog. You may also like. The Beautiful Truth ~ TOM'S TALMUD TISCH: The Etrog, Part

This in-depth mini-series focuses on portions of Masechet Sukkah that record teachings of our Sages about the Etrog. First focusing on

The etrog is indigenous not to the Land of Israel but to China (most commonly associated with mandarins but a cradle for many citrus species).

The Beautiful Truth ~ TOM'S TALMUD TISCH: The Etrog, Part One. Masechet Sukkah, Chap. 3, Page 35a. Rabbi Mendel Kaplan.

During the first decades of the 1800s, American Jews had three sources of etrogim: Corsica, the US itself and the Caribbean.

In the city of Berditchev, home to tens of thousands of Jews, there was but one etrog. Of course, it was given to the town's rabbi, the famed Rabbi Levi