Be Nice to Animals
Divine Code for October 16, 2022
Today: Page 234
Topic Part IV -- vision for humanity
Upcoming blogs will cover the Prohibition of Meat from a Living Animal which consists of five prohibitions and their offshoots.
The Hebrew name of the prohibition of Meat from a living Animal is: Eiver Min ha'Hai (Limb from a living animal).
Although, after the flood, G-d gave Noah and his descendants permission to eat meat, there are rules attached to this.
G-d is concerned with the welfare of all His creatures, including animals. He not only gives rules on how we may kill and eat them, but He also gives rules on how we should treat animals in general. We must not hurt them or cause them unnecessary suffering. This comes under the rule Tza'ar ba'alei hayim.
All these rules are important for animal welfare, but also teach us how to treat humans. If G-d cares so much that we don't hurt or cause suffering to animals, how much more so does this apply to humans, humans created in His Image.
Reading schedule the Divine Code
Yesterday: Topic 4:7 - 4:12
Tomorrow: Topic In our generation - Eiver Min Ha'hai
Brought By Angelique Sijbolts
Angelique Sijbolts is one of the main writers for the Noahide Academy. She has been an observant Noahide for many years. She studies Torah with Rabbi Perets every week. Angelique invests much of her time in editing video-lectures for the Rabbis of the Academy and contributes in administrating the Academy's website in English and Dutch. She lives in the north of the Netherlands. Married and mother of two sons. She works as a teacher in a school with students with special needs. And is a Hebrew Teacher for the levels beginners and intermediate. She likes to walk, to read and play the piano.
Sources
The Divine Code 4e edition by rabbi Moshe Weiner
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