Cutting Fruit Trees - Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

the um the prohibition to cut down trees does that only apply to fruit trees or to regular trees and also last week rabbi mintz had said spoken about the um the calf whose head gets chopped off and he explained that it's not a waste when the torah tells us to do something and now we're being told that when it comes to saving ourselves during war you shouldn't even chop down a tree how does that work well it's as i mentioned before that's by fruit tree now the tweed that doesn't bear fruit you're allowed to cut down for the lumber you allowed to cut down trees for lumber if the tree is worth more for uh then by for lumber than by fruit you're allowed to cut it down also or if the tree is causing problems it might be a sick tree and it's giving off sickness to other trees around it you'd like to cut it down but the different reasons if you have a good reason to cut it you're allowed to cut it down but terra is saying when you're declaring war use the other trees don't use the the the the fruit tree if you have a choice so then you'll use the trees that are used for lumber but not cut down the tree that's for fruit so you have to find a different way different means of of making that platform to make war to find the different uh different trees that are not fruit trees it's my comment before you say we have a cuppa for instance the cousin breaks a glass right so breaks the glass and they say well you're destroying your glass and i'll have to break a glass but there's a purpose for it it would have a purpose for breaking it so that's permitted because the purpose is first to remember the destruction of the holy temple at the time of our happiness not to forget the destruction of the holy temples destroyed make a certain sadness that's such a paradox that's the saddest time of the khupah and then by people it's the happiest time make the glass mouths of everything he's supposed to feel bad breaking the glass thinking of the destruction of the holy temple at that at that moment people don't realize why we're doing it that this to show some sadness at the time of the great happiness but not to forget the destruction of the holy temple so uh but that's not considered baltac is destroying something for nothing because you're doing it for a purpose of this uh remembrance so therefore it's not considered that you broke it for nothing okay