Comentario sobre Eclesiastés 2:5

Every kind of fruit tree. For Shlomo with his wisdom recognized the veins of the earth, which vein goes to Cush, and there he planted peppers [which normally does not grow in Eretz Yisroel]; which one goes to a land of carobs, and there he planted carob trees. For all the veins of the lands come to Tzion, from where the world was founded, as it is stated, “Out of Tzion, the perfect beauty.”⁷Tehillim 50:2. Therefore, it is stated, “every kind of fruit tree.” [This is found] in Midrash Tanchuma.⁸The Gemara in Maseches Bava Kamma 82b states that it is forbidden to plant gardens and orchards in Yerusholayim. Apparently that is what prompted the Targum for this verse to describe that the boundaries for these plants and orchards were from “the wall of Yerusholayim until the banks of the water of Shiloach.” (Gishmei Bracha)

“I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted in them trees of every fruit” (Ecclesiastes 2:5).
“I made myself gardens and orchards” – in its plain sense. “And I planted in them trees of every fruit” – even peppers.¹²Peppercorn trees are indigenous to foreign countries; he would import them with their soil and plant them in the Land of Israel. Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: Solomon would use the demons; he would send them to India and they would bring him water from there,¹³This was so the plants would grow in the soil and be irrigated with the water to which they were accustomed to grow. and he would water [the pepper trees] here and they would bear fruit. Rabbi Yannai son of Rabbi Shimon said to him: If you say so, you are merely exhausting [Solomon].¹⁴Doing so did not require wisdom, just hard work. Rather, Solomon, in his wisdom, ascertained the foundation of the land, and determined which foundation was directed to there.¹⁵He determined the place in Jerusalem that was the foundation of the peppers’ country of origin. He planted it on the foundation of its land, and in that way it bore fruit.