To Smash Or Not To Smash?

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

Hi, this is David Olowi with our new feature question and answer shorts. Anonymous asked a question that I'm going to get into trouble for. I know it already. As somebody once said and one of my sh goes, I feel like sometimes you pause to think whether or not this is appropriate to say and regardless you say it anyway, so I don't even know why you pause. So I know I'm going to get into trouble for this, but I don't care. Anonymous asks, "I want to get the RV's thoughts on a popular trend currently in vogue in from circles known as the cake smash photo shoot. This involves hiring a professional photographer to capture images of a child during their first birthday celebration in which the child is presented with a professionally baked and decorated cake. Photos are taken as the child demolishes the cake, creating a mess in the studio on themselves and possibly consuming parts of the cakes. I'm interested in hearing the rabbis and hashkovic perspective on this practice. I mentioned it's going to get me into trouble because some of my own children do this with their children. Uh yeah, I am not in favor of this because there's an isa called baltash and to take a cake and ruin it. First of all, I don't know what the heter is to waste a cake like that and to waste food and to be maza food. Second of all, uh what are you teaching a kid? You know, you want

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowi with our new feature question and answer shorts. Anonymous asked a…
2. 0:30smash photo shoot. This involves hiring a professional photographer to capture images of a child during…
3. 1:01I mentioned it's going to get me into trouble because some of my own children do…
4. 1:33to try to teach a kid to eat properly, to respect food. There was a Yiddish…
5. 2:05kind of fight and somebody sent something to one of them, you know, and there was…
6. 2:37ever see people go hungry? And he described what it takes to make a piece of…
7. 3:07crying at that point. What's happened to us that we have so such disrespect for food?…
8. 3:39going like on a picnic. He says, "Ah, now I'll get him." And he was hovering…
9. 4:11side of this. This is David Alowski with question and answer shorts. Keep going.…

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