Kiddushin 37A

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This is apart from the mitzvot of orla and diverse kinds, which apply even outside of Eretz Yisrael. R' Eliezer says: This is the halakha even with regard to the prohibition to eat from the new crop before the omer offering has been brought on the 16th of Nisan.

Talmud: The Talmud asks: What is meant by mitzvot that are dependent on the land, and what is meant by mitzvot that are not dependent on the land? If we say that a mitzva is called dependent in a case where it is written in a verse with regard to it: Coming to Eretz Yisrael, and a mitzva that is no

Rav Yehuda said that this is what the Mishnah is saying: Any mitzva that is an obligation of the body, i.e., an obligation upon the person, applies both in Eretz Yisrael and outside of Eretz Yisrael. Conversely, an obligation of the land, that is, a mitzva that applies specifically to the earth an

The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived? The Talmud answers: This is as A baraita states: The verse states: “These are the statutes and the ordinances that you shall observe to do in the land that YHWH, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live up

The baraita continues: From the phrase “in the land [ba’aretz],” one might have thought that all mitzvot apply only in Eretz Yisrael. Therefore, the verse also states “all the days that you live upon the earth,” i.e., wherever you live. Furthermore, if God had written only the phrase “all the days