Is a beehive land?
Word for word in Uktzin 3:10
Greece: fixed hives · Egypt: hives that move
Bees also pollinate
so hives were carried from field to field — movable, not land
Like land — or not?
Rabbi EliezerYes: a pruzbul may be written on it no tumah in its place — the hive stands attached to the ground removing honey on Shabbos — chayav, as if detaching produce from the ground→ fixed in the ground: like land
What is attached to the ground can't become tamei
Honey on Shabbos: like picking fruit
ChachamimNo: no pruzbul is written on it the hive can become tamei in its place removing honey on Shabbos — patur — nothing attached to the ground is being detached→ not land
Chachamim: patur — but still assur
Sheviis 10:7
Beehives
כַּוֶּרֶת דְּבוֹרִים
כַּוֶּרֶת דְּבוֹרִים, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, הֲרֵי הִיא כְקַרְקַע,
וְכוֹתְבִין עָלֶיהָ פְּרוֹזְבּוּל,
וְאֵינָהּ מְקַבֶּלֶת טֻמְאָה בִּמְקוֹמָהּ,
וְהָרוֹדֶה מִמֶּנָּה בְּשַׁבָּת חַיָּב.
וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵינָהּ כְּקַרְקַע,
וְאֵין כּוֹתְבִין עָלֶיהָ פְּרוֹזְבּוּל,
וּמְקַבֶּלֶת טֻמְאָה בִּמְקוֹמָהּ,
וְהָרוֹדֶה מִמֶּנָּה בְּשַׁבָּת, פָּטוּר: