The Belzer Rebbe and the Wormy Fruit Tree
A fruit tree with wormy, inedible fruit blocks the expansion of a crowded beis medrash, yet the Belzer Rebbe rules that it should not be cut down.
The Sefer Taharas Yom Tov recounts how the Belzer Rebbe, zt”l, once ruled that a fruit tree should not be cut down. This, despite the fact that the fruit produced by the tree was wormy and was inedible. Even more significant, the tree was standing in the way of expanding a beis medrash that was too small!