Minhag of avoiding showing pictures of dinosaurs to babies

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There is a minhag more common in Chassidic circles to refrain from showing pictures of non-kosher animals to babies. Does this apply to dinosaurs?

As far as I understand, this minhag does not apply to mythical creatures such as Pokemon. Presumably, then, this question boils down to whether the Torah views dinosaurs as mythical or not.

Or maybe it boils down to whether they are considered kosher or not? :) — Rabbi Kaii, Nov 30 '23 at 19:48
@RabbiKaii https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50293/is-it-acceptable-under-kashrut-to-eat-tyrannosauridae-meat — shmosel, Nov 30 '23 at 20:21
The real question is according to the view that the world was created with extinct dinosaurs in its geological history. Does the fact that they would have existed make them "real" retroactively? — shmosel, Nov 30 '23 at 20:35
Many of the marine species of dinosaurs are depicted as having fins and scales ... — יהושע ק, Nov 30 '23 at 21:04
Does this answer your question? Gift of a Teddy Bear to New Born Baby — sabbahillel, Nov 30 '23 at 23:55
@יהושעק and many of the land ones are depicted with feathers, so can we eat the herbivores? — Rabbi Kaii, Dec 01 '23 at 09:37
@RabbiKaii I believe rabbi Peretz Flinstein ruled them kosher — יהושע ק, Dec 01 '23 at 13:15
@יהושעק I think Rav Obadiah ruled that cave painting to be a copyist mistake — Rabbi Kaii, Dec 01 '23 at 14:04
Presumably then it is only a problem for those who believe that dinosaurs existed, which might be an interesting intersection with those who have that minhag. Actually, is anything not kosher if it only existed before the Torah was given? Conversely, maybe the opposite is true - could even the marine ones with fins and scales be considered kosher if they didn't exist when the Torah was given? — Moses Supposes, Dec 01 '23 at 15:01

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I think the minhag you mention is a Chabad one, which doesn't allow for the use of any non-kosher species of animals as dolls or figurines. On the other hand, other communities have, for example, depictions of lions on the Aron Kodesh, and allow their children to play with teddy bears and the like.

Anyways, refraining from such figures would be merely a minhag, not a Halachah.

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Let us continue this discussion in chat. – ElonMusk Dec 04 '23 at 05:34

Minhag of avoiding showing pictures of dinosaurs to babies

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