Rabbi, Can My Kids "Trick-or-Treat"? - Ask the Rabbi 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.

we'll take an online question going seasonal somebody anonymous wants to know over here is there anything wrong with allowing my children as jews to go trick-or-treating well um there's uh halachically nothing wrong with it but it's such a difference uh the children dress up halloween and the jewish children dress up and put him they had masquerade and you see the big difference between we brought this out in the past the difference with the trick and treating that the uh the trick and treating of masquerading of halloween is for me either trick or treat knows if you don't treat me i'll trick you and i'll do something that's what it's all about right if you don't treat me give me something kids go on collecting

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1. 0:00we'll take an online question going seasonal somebody anonymous wants to know over here is there…
2. 0:31the children dress up halloween and the jewish children dress up and put him they had…
3. 1:01and purim you let the kids go on collecting for poor people they're not for themselves…
4. 1:31the wrong idea of judaism to say go and take if you take money take candy…
5. 2:02there was not a non-jewish neighborhood city and they had a certain school over there they…
6. 2:32trick-or-treating so we were masquerading this so they said they got the candy ready to give…
7. 3:02yeah that's the only connection between them but otherwise there's no no connection between the two…

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