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What type of new fruit should you use on Rosh Hashana?
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Watch as Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, explores the answer. Got kashrut questions about Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, or Sukkot? Drop them in the comments! #kosher #oukosher #kashrut #roshhashanah #halacha #fruit
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What type of new fruit should you use on Rosh
Hashana? So, in general, to make a Shehechiyanu
on a new fruit, there are different opinions,
and it could be quite complex. Some say that
you don't make a Shehechiyanu on a new fruit
unless it is obvious that it came from the new
harvest. Fruit like apples and oranges, which
are available in the store all year round, you
cannot make a Shehechiyanu on them. Even if you
know that this orange is straight from the tree,
it was just from the new harvest, many hold
do not make a Shehechiyanu on oranges because
they're available in the store all year and one
can't readily see the difference between the new
oranges and the old oranges. Fruit that people
do make a Shehechiyanu, or some people make a
Shehechiyanu on, would be, let's say, peaches,
nectarines, summer fruit, which are only available
in the stores certain months of the year. But
on grapes, apples, oranges, even pomegranates
which are available all year round, the people
generally do not make a Shehechiyanu. However,
when it comes Rosh Hashana, because anyways, one
has to make the Shehechiyanu on the new fruit,
people are much more lenient and they will
use all types of new fruit for the bracha.
People will find fruit that they haven't eaten
in many months, exotic fruit that they haven't
seen before and they'll use that for the
Shehechiyanu. And really, whatever you use
is fine cuz even if you had no new fruit anyways
you would be saying the bracha of Shehechiyanu.