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Here is a thread where you can share your yiddishe nachas stories. Whether it’s about your kids, your nieces, nephews, or even your neighbor’s kids. If it’s cute, inspiring, or just plain beautiful, please share it so we can sheff nachas too.
I’ll begin with my six and a half yr. old son, who’s rebbe called me up during morning recess time to share nachas with me. He was explaining the story with R’ Shimon bar Yochai, how he was chased by the romans, and he hid in a cave with his son, and how scary it was, and they had no food with them, etc. And Hashem made a nais that a carob tree grew and they lived off the buxer tree.
Upon which my son (in 1st grade) pipes up and asks, “but Rebbe, what about Orlah?!”
Aahhhh, nachas!
not bad, not bad.
Ah nachas. Great story baal habooze. I found some answers on aish dot com on Rav Asher Alports torah page that you can share with your son.
The Torah forbids the consumption of orlah, the fruits produced by a tree for the first three years (Leviticus 19:23). The Talmud (Shabbos 33b) relates that when Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai was forced to flee to a cave to save his life, a carob tree miraculously sprouted there to provide him sustenance. How was he permitted to eat the fruits, which are considered orlah?
Rabbi Yissochar Dov of Belz (Imrei Daas) cites the Talmud (Yerushalmi Orlah 1:1), which rules that if a tree grows in a place which isn’t designed for human settlement, which was the case with the cave of Rebbi Shimon, it is exempt from the laws of orlah.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (Derech Emunah Hilchos Maaser Sheini 10:6) notes that Maimonides rules that if a tree grows on its own in a public area, such that its fruits are ownerless and available to all, the laws of orlah do not apply to it.
The M’rafsin Igri gives a few answers. First, a tree which grows miraculously is exempt from all laws governing fruits, such as orlah and ma’aser. Second, the tree may have already been planted elsewhere for more than three years, and if it was transferred to the cave together with its roots, its fruits would be immediately permissible. Alternatively, Rebbi Shimon may have eaten the carob fruits while they were still small and not yet legally classified as fruits which are forbidden as orlah.
your 6 year old was mechaven to a bavusteh shaila! That’s a great story.
Great story! Much nachas!
Once upon a time reb Aharon Kotler had memorized all 3 bobas of Gemara when he was just 9
BaalHabooze a smart question. May you and all klal yisrael continue to have only nachas from all their children!
The answer I know is that things that come thru a nes are not subject to the regular stuff so fruit from a nes are not subject to orlah just as clothes from a nes are more subject to shatnez etc.
Shticky
Clothes have a din of orlah? Please explain.
Clothes have a din of orlah?
Sure. Didnt you know? When you buy clothes you can’t wear them for 3 years.
I’m not sure if this story comes in here, but it’s a cute story so I’ll repeat it. When my sister was four years old, my seven year old brother asked me why we can’t see Hashem. My four year old sister piped up “Let’s say you would be able to see Hashem, and you would want to see the oven. You wouldn’t be able to see it, because Hashem is all over…”
Shticky
Id like a second opinion.
BaalH, what a clever little boy to think of that! Kinehora!!!
When you buy clothes you can’t wear them for 3 years.
That’s why I always buy suits that are three sizes too big.
I also only buy Hanes, not that other company.
That’s why I always buy suits
that are three sizes too big
DY Thats the first serious thing you’ve posted here for a long time ☺. By the way is the whole suit 3 sizes too big or only the pants…
Id like a second opinion
WIY You are usually ‘Well Informed’ yourself… Lol. Well dont panic, you still have 3 years to find out!
Shticky Guy
You mean I have to wear 3 years ago’s style? Its probably coming back in soon anyways.
DY
“I also only buy Hanes, not that other company.”
A line I never thought Id see on a nachas thread…
My 6 year old asked me when we were going to go to a relatives chassunah. I told her “first we have to daven to Hashem to help her find her chosson”.
the next day we were walking down the block and she whispers to me “mommy, there’s a big boy. Is that the chosson _____is looking for?” and my 4 yr old pipes up “we found him! we found him!!”
If only it were so easy!!
i asked my 10 year old daughter where she went with her friends this past shabbos afternoon. she said she went to visit the elderly people in the old age home in our neighbourhood, and made the old people so happy
I asked my 3 year daughter, “what did hashem put all around Har-Sinai?” she replied “STICKERS!”
(she made for arts-n-crafts the ‘har sinai’ and decorated it with flower shape stickers.)
kingdavid – lol! that reminds me of my 4 yr old nephew, who was showing me his pesach arts ‘n crafts, i asked him, “wow, who made all these froggies in mitzrayim?” he said, “morah raizy did, but i coloured it in!”
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