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.
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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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Throwing Out Bread
What is the nature of the prohibition to destroy bread? Why is it commonly presented differently from other destruction (bal tashchit)?
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To avoid bal tashchis, halachically, should people limit the quantity of "junk food" in mishloach manot?
Each year, after Purim, I am left with mounds of candy bars, wafers, juice boxes and other junk food that no one in my family eats. It gets thrown into the garbage. Seriously, we tried one year giving ...
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do I have to eat the leftovers? [duplicate]
Is it a problem of bal tashchit to throw out edible leftovers if one prefers to do so for no good reason?
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Destroying fruit-tree to save house
There is a prohibition against destroying fruit trees (Devarim 20:19). Are there any exceptions to this rule? May one cut down a fruit tree that is damaging a nearby house?
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If Bal Tashchis and Achila Gasa would get in a fight, who would win?
There is a prohibition not to be wasteful. There is also a prohibition not to overeat. If a person was full, and the rest of the food was going to go to waste, is it better to discard perfectly good ...
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Taking home leftovers from a caterered affair - mitzvah or stealing?
At the end of several affairs, we notice that there are some cakes and pastries which are completely untouched. The caterer says that, by law of the health department, once a cake is out of its box, ...
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Are "Price-Tag" Attacks halachically sound?
Certain fringe elements* in Israel are known for committing crimes in reaction to Palestinian attacks. This attacks have in the past included the destruction of Palestinian-owned olive groves and ...
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Is taking an extended warm shower Bal Tashchis? Biblically?
Is taking an extended warm shower for pleasure (maybe also for health (Rambam dipping in hot water is healthy (i do not remember specific source))) Bal Tashchis Diorisa?
Where can I find sources on ...
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Cutting down fruit tree not worth its upkeep
There's a general prohibition to cut down fruit trees (see this question), based on 'bal tashchis'. Would the prohibition apply even to fruit trees that are expensive to maintain (and do not produce ...
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Why do we burn chametz instead of other ways of destroying it?
Before Pesach we burn whatever chametz we have not sold or otherwise removed from our ownership. Why specifically do we burn it instead of finding another way to dispose of it? Perhaps a lest wasteful ...
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Is playing with a water gun allowed
Is playing with a water gun for fun allowed or is it a problem of baal tashchis (wasting resources)?
(assuming for adult playing with kids or with other adults)
This is really a general question of ...
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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 ...
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