Regarding grafting apple trees by a non-Jew, considering 'amira l'nochri' and 'kilayim'.

Date: 11 Av 5573

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi Lipman Katz

Description

The responsum discusses the halachic permissibility of having a non-Jew graft an apple branch from a wild apple tree onto another apple tree, considering the prohibitions of 'amira l'nochri' (telling a non-Jew to perform a forbidden act), 'lifnei iver' (placing a stumbling block before the blind), and 'kilayim' (forbidden mixtures).

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer Collected §25

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