The Obligations of Agricultural Workers
Workers may recite [the Shema‘] from atop a tree, and they may recite the Prayer1 from atop an olive tree or from atop a fig tree. But from all other kinds of trees one must come down to recite the Prayer below. And the householder must always come down and recite the Prayer below.
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