Questions tagged [bal-tashchit-waste]
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Can you compost chametz in your backyard? If so, how?
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Some ways to get rid of food, from most to least environmentally-friendly, are:
Feeding it to animals.
Backyard composting.
Curbside municipal composting.
Burning it in a plastic bag. ...
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Practice for Shechita
I'm practicing to be a Shochet and one of the difficulties is practicing shechita on hundreds of birds to become proficient in picking up any bird and shechting it properly first try.
Most non-Jewish ...
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Niddah Leftovers vs. Bal Tashchis
Is one prohibited to eat his wife's leftover even if she won't finish it and will be throw away?
Please bring authentic halachic sources to support your answer.
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Sefer on bal tashchit
Is there any contemporary Sefer which covers the basics of hilchos bal tashchit, and practical cases of their relevancy.
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Can one prune a fruit tree?
Can one cut down branches of a fruit tree but not necessary cut down the entire the tree?
At what point does it become bal tashchis?
Is there no limit to trimming if it doesnt "kill" the ...
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Is destroying money Bal Tashchit
Aside from the national legality of destroying currency, does the Torah consider the intention of lowering inflation a valid reason for destroying money, or will it fall under Bal Tashchit?
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Did Rav Papa issue a halachic ruling in order to benefit financially?
In the Gemara Shab. 140b Rav Papa is recorded saying that one who drinks wine while able to drink beer violates “ba’al tashchit”. Maharsh”a comments that Rav Papa’s disapproval of consuming wine ...
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Is Rabeinu Yonah at all encouraging wasting any food?
Rabeinu Yonah discusses one of the ways of repentance as leaving a little food over after the meal.
אך בעת מאכלו ועודנו תאב לאכול יניח ממנו לכבוד הבורא מתאוותיו, ואל יאכל כפי תאוותו. ודרך זה ...
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Throwing out cake or pastry larger than a k'zayis
One is not allowed to throw out pieces of bread larger than a k'zayis. Rabbi Doniel Neustadt (here in footnote 2) says this also applies to pastry and cake, but doesn't provide a source for this. ...
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Ramifications of eating (or forcing to eat) food one doesn’t like
Avos D’Rebbi Nassan 26:5 says (translation is from Artscroll, and brackets are from their footnotes):
הוא היה אומר האוכל אוכלין שאינם עולים על גופו עובר משום ג' לאוין שביזה את עצמו וביזה את האוכלין ...
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Food ‘fight’ in the Talmud
Does the Talmud talk about a food fight (i.e. throwing food at one another)?
In general, what would the Talmud have to say about a food fight in terms of wasting food, or otherwise? Is it okay? Not ...
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passive bal tashchis
is passive bal tashchis wrong?
i see jews eat things (sometimes even to the detriment of their health, (because of the amount or quality) so that they will not go to waste
is this a Jewish thing to do ...
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Throwing away leftover kiddush wine
In keeping with the general rule that mitzvah objects, including comestibles, be discarded respectfully (as well as possibly baal tashchis), how should one get rid of leftover kiddush wine? It's not ...
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Must chewing gum be removed before saying a bracha?
Given that it's preferable to have an empty mouth when saying a bracha must I remove chewing gum from my mouth before saying a bracha - for example, for a glass of water, or anything else for that ...
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Bal Tashchit and Chametz
Before Pesach, it is common to attempt to get rid of whatever chametzdik food one is able to. Taking this and the issur (prohibition) of bal tashchit into account, is it actually permissible to throw ...
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