Cutting Fruit Trees - Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the um the prohibition to cut down trees does that only apply to fruit trees or to regular trees and also last week rabbi mintz had said spoken about the um the calf whose head gets chopped off and he explained that it's not a waste when the torah tells us to do something and now we're being told that when it comes to saving ourselves during war you shouldn't even chop down a tree how does that work well it's as i mentioned before that's by fruit tree now the tweed that doesn't fruit tree now the tweed that doesn't bear fruit you're allowed to cut down for the lumber you allowed to cut down trees for lumber if the tree is worth more for uh then by for lumber than by fruit you're allowed to cut it down also or if the tree is causing problems it might be a sick tree and it's giving off sickness to other trees around it you'd like to cut it down but the different reasons if you have a good reason to cut it you're allowed to cut it down but terra is saying when you're declaring war use the other trees don't use the the

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4. 1:31have to break a glass but there's a purpose for it it would have a purpose…
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