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Children were seen picking from trees on Erev Tisha B'Av in the village of Kfar Chabad. Any idea what they were picking? More

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Baal Tashchis?!
July 17, 2013 5:36 pm

If they are edible – WHY!??! waste them?

What’s the point of wasting good food?

Berelach
July 17, 2013 3:00 pm
#32
July 16, 2013 8:28 pm

Yes all you are saying is true however the “fun” needs to ALSO come with the etzem inyan of tisha b’av NOT only the beralach on its own. I agree 100 percent with no. 32

בומבאלאך
July 16, 2013 6:05 pm
To #34
July 16, 2013 3:19 pm

It was the holy Reb Yisroel of Ruzhin and the Rebbe told this story at a Farbrengen and it is published. The Tzemach Tzedek held the Ruzhin Rebbe in very high regard.

to #32
July 16, 2013 1:13 pm

In Eretz Yisroel Tisha B’Av is felt so much more than in the US being closer, and those shishkes(oh the Memories!) do make people feel different emotions (happy, mad etc.)

to number 32 pathetic
July 16, 2013 1:01 pm

please do not be critical about the “fun” activity. this has an origin in a story about some great person. i can’t remember his name. maybe one of the readers would k now the story. that great man walked into his shul or his bais medrash and saw some people playing with that, throwing those things. he prayed to Hashem saying HASHEM, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE HOW YOUR PEOPLE KEEP THIS SAD DAY, TAKE IT AWAY FROM US! he asked Hashem to remove from us all our sad days and turn them into happy days. many continued with this… Read more »

Happy
July 16, 2013 11:56 am

Potatoes

pathetic
July 16, 2013 9:07 am

in the olden days, chasidim who were b’emes “in danger” of becoming overly sad due to churban beis hamikdash needed this shtick to chear them up poshut for their avoidas hashem..

how sad and pathetic how we educate our kids to go picking berelach as a “cute and fun” activity lchvod tisha b’av… is this what has become of us? we deprive them from experiencing tisha bav like a yid… watch the next generation (ch’v) picking berelach in honor of gimel tamuz.. shame on us

babkes
July 16, 2013 5:40 am

stuff to trow on tisha b’av

Shishkes!
July 16, 2013 4:31 am

Wow! Memories…

beeds
July 16, 2013 4:07 am

things to throw at ppl during eicha

Shivas haminim
July 16, 2013 2:54 am

Olives!

BERALACH!
July 16, 2013 2:46 am

Beralach

Strawberries
July 16, 2013 2:41 am
Esrogim/carobs?
July 16, 2013 12:35 am
Avocado?
July 16, 2013 12:21 am
They were picking:
July 15, 2013 11:58 pm

‘Beralach’.

bobkes
July 15, 2013 11:55 pm
childhood memories!
July 15, 2013 11:45 pm

Yeah!!! When I was a kid I would pick those green things off the tree. My cousins told me they would throw them at some point in shul on the fast day. I’m not so sure why though..

Acorns?
July 15, 2013 11:26 pm

Beralach? Bobkes?

Berahlach
July 15, 2013 10:33 pm

To throw on 9 av

shishkes
July 15, 2013 10:27 pm

they throw them at each other on Tisha B’av

Abba
July 15, 2013 10:25 pm

Is this that tisha Bav game?

guess...
July 15, 2013 10:18 pm

almonds?

picking "shishkes"
July 15, 2013 10:15 pm

Don’t know what they’re called in English. As a kid, I would spend every summer in Kfar Chabad. All the kids would gather these “shishkes” from the trees and we would throw them at each other tisha b’av night outside of shul.

Arbes
July 15, 2013 10:10 pm
Bombolach
July 15, 2013 10:08 pm

Bombolach

שישקעס;)
July 15, 2013 9:27 pm

They even create slings out of toilet paper carboard rolls with a balloon attached these days… Such nostalgia!

i know!
July 15, 2013 9:07 pm

moshiach cards!
🙂

The fun of the good ole days......
July 15, 2013 8:53 pm

Tisha b’av “stickers”

olives
July 15, 2013 8:45 pm

looks like olives

Leah
July 15, 2013 8:45 pm

They were picking shishkes. They throw it on eachother on Tisha Bav night.

old minhag picking cones to throw
July 15, 2013 8:37 pm
Berelech
July 15, 2013 8:29 pm
BERELACH
July 15, 2013 8:18 pm

or as some call them Bopkehs

To 1.
July 15, 2013 8:16 pm

NO not pomegranates obviously its food for before the fast!

weed!!!!
July 15, 2013 8:15 pm

a weed plantation, what else?

Bochur
July 15, 2013 8:14 pm

Pomegranates???

annoynomuse
July 15, 2013 8:09 pm

pomigranets ormore likely esrogim.

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