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Throwing out food with “questionable” hechsher - bal tashchis?
If one receive cooked food from a person that perhaps used ingrediants from a hechsher that one normally wouldn't eat is it bal tashchis to throw out the food?
With packaged, store-bought food it ...
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Is throwing out challah you were mafrish a violation of bal tashchit?
I'm probably missing something rather simple but a cursory check has not given me a suitable answer -- when someone bakes challah and takes that chunk out to be put aside for a kohen, because the ...
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Is runoff water from a drinking fountain a problem of Bal Tashhith?
There are so many potential questions raised with respect to runoff water, so I'll just stick with one:
When I was a kid I was taught to let the water of a drinking fountain run for 10 seconds before ...
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Filmmaking - Bal Tashchis?
I don't know if anyone has seen the Lipa Schmeltzer music video for Abi M'leibt, but I remember that when it first came out, many people on various forums were furious at the blatant bal tashchis that ...
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Cutting Vines in Halacha
Halacha does not allow one to cut down a Fruit Bearing tree. Does this apply to a Grape Vine too?
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Throwing out bread or Challah
In todays generation when there is leftover bread or Challah we often discard it. As bread is the food for life there are those that either feed it to the birds, make kugel, breadcrumbs, etc. instead ...
