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The gemara relates an argument as to what the עץ הדעת is:

  • etrog
  • wheat
  • grapes
  • fig
  • or God wouldn't reveal his secrets to us...

With that being said, all of the above have a tikkun:

Etrog, when we take it on sukkot, which is the month that the sin happened in.

Grapes and wheat on shabbat when we say kiddush and hamotzie. Because the sin happened Friday night.

My question is, at least to my knowledge, figs are excluded. Why is that?

טעמי המנהגים סי' רפ"ג

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    @YDJ That's quite some claim
    – Shababnik
    Commented Nov 11 at 4:51
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    @YDJ That article states that archeologists have found fossilized esrog pollen from the post-Babylonian Exile era (i.e., before the Second Temple or in its early years). So already your "became available in Eretz Israel only at the end of the 2nd Temple era" is refuted.
    – Meir
    Commented Nov 11 at 17:29
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    @YDJ what, did trade not exist yet? Even if we accept the premise that there was no large-scale farming of the etrog in the Middle East, there’s no reason to assume they didn’t use Etrogim for Sukkot. And they wouldn’t even need to get a lot. Remember, in the second Temple era, they only had one Lulav for everyone.
    – Qwertrl
    Commented Nov 11 at 18:41
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    @YDJ Look up the difference beween terminus a quo and ad quem. That they found such pollen in a post-Babylonian Exile era layer means that that's the latest time that esrogim could have been introduced into the Land of Israel, not the earliest.
    – Meir
    Commented Nov 11 at 18:55
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    @YDJ Who says "originally"? They may have originated elsewhere, and only one species was brought to Eretz Yisrael.
    – Meir
    Commented Nov 11 at 23:25

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מדרש תלפיות אות א' ענף אצבעות. ענף מינין בלולב
brings the reasons I stated in my question as well as saying that figs have a tikkun when we bring בכורים.

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    Perhaps one can add (to explain its absence from the gemara) that the fig’s tikkun was in the עלי תאנה that Adam and Chava clothed themselves in.
    – Yø-c Ro
    Commented Nov 10 at 23:12

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