Is a toy frog “Kosher”, since it’s one of the מכות?

 

Question:

This may be more of a “chassidishe rov” question than a pure halacha question, but I would still be happy to hear your thoughts.

My wife and I are careful to minimize our son’s exposure to non-kosher animals, based on what we understand to be the Rebbe’s instructions, although I have never seen the sources myself. Recently, though, we wanted to get him a lot of new toys, and one thing I bought him was a toy frog, which I assumed was fine since it’s one of the מכות. He really likes it, so he still plays with it even now, but we started wondering if maybe it was a mistake to give it to him since it’s not kosher. Should we let him keep it, or work on distracting him from it and giving him something else instead?

By the way, if you know offhand where the Rebbe discusses this whole topic, I would love to know the sources. We seem to have questions about it come up a lot, especially when visiting not-frum relatives.

 

Answer:

You should try to de-attach him from this toy as you suggested – slowly but surely.

 

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See also some of the links here:

https://asktherav.com/tag/animals/

 

 

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