Ask Behar Bechukosai 86 #5902 -Don’t Play with Fire - Q. Can one burn on the Lag Baomer fire at home old wood furniture destined to be left for the garbage collectors, which someone may still pick up and use? Is it maybe incurring on the Baal Tashchis prohibition of destroying still usable items?
A. On question 4241 we wrote the following:
Q. Dear Rabbi. Is it proper to bring to a Shul where they make a fire on Lag Baomer, used clothing that one will throw away as is, to be burned by the fire? Wasn’t something similar done with the used clothing of the Cohanim in the Beis Hamikdash during Sukot? Would that not ruin away the good use of the clothing that was to be discarded?
A. Using one’s used clothing for a Lag Baomer fire in shul may be seen as a disgusting and offensive act by the other attendants, so it is better to avoid.
It cannot be compared to the Big’dei Kehuna which had a high degree of Kedusha and holiness.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a
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