Tu BeAv: Difference between revisions

# Any seeds or saplings planted ''before'' Tu BeAv can count the following Rosh HaShanah as the completion of the first year of the [[Orlah]] count, because it takes two weeks (from Tu BeAv to Rosh Chodesh Elul) for Halacha to recognize its integration into the ground and thirty days (the month of Elul) to count as a whole year. Anything planted ''after'' Tu BeAv must count a full year ending on the next Rosh Hashanah, not the approaching one.<ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah, Orlah 3:2)</ref>

# If one is unsure if the seed was planted before or after Tu BeAv, in Eretz Yisrael, he must be strict and count a full year, but in Chutz LaAretz, he may be lenient and count the forty-four days before Rosh HaShanah as the first year.<ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah, Orlah 3:5)</ref>