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VelVel (Beau)
SPRINGFIELD
February 18, 2025
Rabbi, was there something wrong with my answer? Please explain. Reply
Yulanda
Toronto
February 17, 2025
6/10 I guess this score is a decent score! I need to learn more about trees! I was shocked that trees are also used for idol worship! I should have gotten at least two more right! But I chose the wrong answer! Next time! I hope to do better! thanks for these quizzes Rabbi! Shalom. Reply
Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
February 18, 2025
in response to Yulanda :
Interesting is that ancient people did worship trees like the Ashera. but I will add that prior to Islam trees were worshipped too.. I would assume that trees were seen as a gift in the desert. of the Middle Easst. Reply
Angela Wilder
Brooklyn
February 17, 2025
Thank you 9/10 right Reply
Bubba
Alabama
February 14, 2025
10/10. Not bad for a boy from Alabama with a 6th grade education. I may not know a lot, but I do know my farming! Reply
Георги Янкулов
Bulgaria
February 14, 2025
Greetings from Bulgaria!
Todah Rabbi Posner! You are always improving my knowledge.
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Jim Krämer
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
February 13, 2025
8/10
Could be better!
Shows me areas where I need to improve!
Thank you a thousand times, Rabbi Posner!🙂
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Mark Corbin
Mt. Healthy, OH
February 13, 2025
8/10 - These quizzes are excellent learning tools...thanks! Reply
Deborah Greene
South Africa Jhb
February 13, 2025
Walla!10/10 .. let's remember Shalu Shalom Yerushalayim ...Bezrat Hashem so be it that every Hostages is Released this coming Shabbat B'H ...please G-D let the War come to an end...also Ukraine Reply
A.E
February 15, 2025
in response to Deborah Greene:
Amen. May the LORD God say so, Amen and Amen. Glory be to God. Reply
Angela Wilder
Brooklyn
February 13, 2025
Thank you for my quizzes. Reply
VelVel (Beau) BeauJean
SPRINGFIELD
February 12, 2025
I took Trees In Judaism Quiz and got 10/10. This quiz was rather interesting. Thanks. Reply
Axel Berger
Köln-Ossendorf
February 12, 2025
I'm too old to do much climbing today, but the enactment seems harsh on boys and girls just past bar and bat mitzwa age. Reply
Rita Forbes
Clinton
February 13, 2025
in response to Axel Berger:
Good Morning, Axel
If you are still somewhat flexible, a good tree whose limbs are low and branches are strong and grow a couple of inches from the ground that you can sit on is the Red/Black Mulberry Tree. If you are unable to do that, you can sit under the tree and have a picnic and listen to the birds sing and watch them flutter about. Another joy is watching the laughter of children tree climbing and reminiscing what is was like for you when you were a youth/younger adult.
Best wishes!
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A. E
February 12, 2025
I love how the Ashira question has no storyline. It seems the quiz master is saying "Case closed", no news here. Reply
A. E
February 12, 2025
I was thinking I would not do to well in the tree quiz. Surprisingly I got 10/10, Baruch Hashem. Reply
Raymond
West Hollywood
February 12, 2025
oh darn. i only got 8/10 this time around. I had no idea that one cannot climb trees on Shabbat. I also got the one wrong about chopping down trees during a siege. i had thought precisely the opposite on that issue. wow, so too solid wrongs. I must be losing my touch Reply
Axel Berger
Köln-Ossendorf
February 12, 2025
in response to Raymond :
This can be and has been generalized to not destroying the enemy's means of sustenance and not making his land uninhabitable. Are there any precedents of an enemy misusing a fruit tree a some kind of weapon and any ruling on that? Reply
Lyone
February 12, 2025
in response to Raymond :
Yes, trees are not the enemy, nor are they able to run away from the battlefield. Reply
Yulanda
Toronto
February 17, 2025
in response to Raymond :
Raymond! as for me I got those two answers right! Because I remember reading in my Bible! That trees should not be destroyed in a siege! And as for climbing a tree on Shabbat! that's a no brainer! You shouldn't be doing any work on the Sabbaths! so in my opinion one shouldn't be climbing trees! its just my reasoning! even though I am not Jewish! The two questions that got me! was the one about how many years the fruit shouldn't be eaten! I was wrestling with the answers! And the question that said what should be done with the year after. Reply
Raymond
West Hollywood
February 13, 2025
in response to Lyone :
Well, my reasoning in answering the question as I did, is that I figured that unless one has a compelling reason, one should not uproot trees. Surely, though, one who is under siege is precisely in such a dire situation so as to warrant even the uprooting of trees Reply
Axel Berger
Köln-Ossendorf
February 14, 2025
in response to Raymond :
The rule is not for the besieged but for the besieger. You may fell trees and make battering rams of them but you must spare the enemy's fruit trees. Reply
Ari
February 11, 2025
BH! Love these quizzes and everything y’all do! Very blessed to have you all and all you do. Thank you and Moshiach now! :) prayers for Israel and the Jewish people and all who need! Reply
Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
February 10, 2025
Thank for including this subject via means of a quiz. I learned ! Reply
7/10.