SmallTalk: Down To Earth: Halachos For Farmers and Outdoorsmen (with Rabbi Rafi Levitan)

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Welcome to Small Talk by Seforim Chatter. I'm Nachi Weinstein. >> [music] >> On this episode of Small Talk, I'm going to be joined by Rabbi Rabbi Raffi Levitan, who's the author of the newly published book, Down to Earth Halachas, a practical guide to Halacha for farmers and outdoorsmen. So, thank you, Raffi, for joining me. >> Thank you, Nachi. Thank you so much for having me. Uh it's a pleasure to be here. >> What can you tell our listeners about your book? >> It's not your typical, you know, I I >> It's not your typical, you know, I I it's called it's a safer, but it's not your typical safer that you would pick up, you know, another Hilchos Shabbos, another Hilchos Brochos. It It's definitely unique. It's definitely something very out of the box. Um it's geared towards the Halachos of outdoors and farming in Chutz L'Aretz, so not, you know, um not for Eretz Yisrael, not for Shmita, Trumos Ma'aser. Um but it's also, you know, very unique that, you know, even if you're not a farmer or you're not an outdoorsman, it's definitely a lot of outdoorsman, it's definitely a lot of topics that I cover in here that, you know, you wouldn't really find anywhere else or anywhere discussed anywhere else. >> Now, why did you decide to write this book? It's a little interesting that it's farmers and outdoors Halachos. Is there a personal connection here? >> Y- Yes, that's a good question. Um so, I grew up in Flatbush. There's not a farm or a cow or horse anywhere in the anywhere nearby. Um I wrote it because my father has a farm upstate New York as

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2. 1:02outdoorsman, it's definitely a lot of topics that I cover in here that, you know, you…
3. 2:35out. So, I started learning this. It took me around 5 years to write this safer.…
4. 4:05eiruv, trumah and shabbat kodesh, milking animals on shabbat, as you mentioned, and the permissible ways…
5. 5:36those questions that, you know, just come in so in all these topics. So it's a…
6. 7:08cats and dogs. Which is interesting I love how that you put in here and you…
7. 8:38It's not only a farm issue. >> Yeah, and the same goes for trapping as well…
8. 10:10or on the farm. That's in anyone's house, but just, you know, we give a quick…
9. 11:42lost the that mitzvah. >> So, in general, the sources used here, what are the main…
10. 13:13they've never seen brought down before. Um it you know, if you're a farmer, I think…

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