Hunting Inhumane Sport for Jews, a Scolar Asserts
The sport of bunting Is con-
, sidered an inhuman pastime in
Jewish tradition, according to an
article by Dr. Sidney B. Hoenig,
Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor
of Jewish History at Yeshiva Uni-
versity, in Tradition, quarterly of
the Rabbinical Council of America.
Dr. Hoenig says that "Jewish
tradition throughout the ages has
been aware of the harshness and
inhumanity of game hunting,
which is included in the biblical
interdict against the unnecessary
spilling of blood."
The only exception made was
the trapping of animals for food.
However, Dr. Hoenig noted that
this was "concession to man's
weakness." Adam was not per-
g
mitted to eat flesh, and only after
the flood in Noah's time was ani-
mal consumption permitted, he
writes.
such animals as seals is forbid-
den.
The element of cruelty to ani-
mals is present even in ritual
slaughter, Dr. Hoenig said. "Rit-
ual slaughter is more humane than
other methods. Maimonides in his
'Guide' clearly states that 'It is
not allowed to torment the animal
Popular Women
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1971. STA. Dm)
A poll by a leading French pe-
riodical shows Golda Meir is the
second most popular woman in the
world. The first is Indira Ghandi.
Mrs. Ghandi was no doubt assist-
ed in her career by being the
daughter of Nehru and is married
into the famous Ghandi family.
Golda did it on her own.
The people of Israel did not
Dr. Hoenig contrasts the atti-
choose Golda as prime minister to
tude of the Jewish tradition to
demonstrate that women are the
hunting with Catholic theology
equal of men. They chose her be-
as presented by C. A. Damen
cause they thought her superior
("TheologialWoralis") and others,
for this job.
which states that although un-
For some time, it had been quite
necessary cruelty should be
a fad to speak mockingly of the
avoided, the exercise and thrill
Jewish
mother. She was made fun
provided by the chase justifies
hunting as a means of recrea- of for being overconcerned. But
Golda is just a Jewish mother. A
tion.
is but an enlarged house-
It also contrasts with the views country
hold. The statesman's business is
of John Calvin, who differentiated to
see
there
is a chicken in the
between the clergy and the laity: pot. That's the
mother's business
"No ecclesiastic should spend his too.
time in hunting."
Golda Meir is in the Jewish
Among the many heroes of tradition. Let me speak of my
Jewish history, Dr. Hoenig writes, grandmother, Buhl Maryashi.
not one is portrayed as a hunter. None of her grandchildren born
And unlike English literature, in America ever saw her. She
there is no song of laudation of died in Russia, but we all knew
the hunter or of hunting in all of about her. She was the big
Jewish writings.
wheel. She bore 10 sons and ran
Sensitivity to the cruelty of ani. the little flour mill which sup-
mals was apparent early time% ported the family. Few of the
Dr. Hoenig says, in
in the Jew's not grandchildren ever know the
making domestic pets of birds and name of the grandfather. He ap-
animals. The extent of the sensi- parently just sat in the synago-
tivity is seen in the rule that when gue.
one purchased new boots, unlike
One day this bubi of mine picked
other attire, the blessing, "May herself up and decided to become
they get old and may you get new a halutza. She was only 80 years
ones," was not recited since an old at the time. She thought the
animal had to be killed to obtain generation gap began at 90.
its skin.
However, when she arrived at
Moreover, the trapping for fur of the borders of Palestine, the Tur-
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by cutting the throat in a clumsy
manner, by pole-axing, or by cut-
ting off a limb while the animal is
alive.' Even today arrangements
are being carefully studied for the
construction of new types of pens,
in which the animal will - not be
able to move and which. would do
away with the need for shackling."
.
kish government then in control
would not permit her to enter. I
often wonder how the Turkish
army could stand up against her.
There were many like her among
the mothers of Israel. I mention
her merely to point out that the
Jewish women of old were not as
unemancipated as some suppose.
The only superiority the male en-
joyed was in the synagogue. He
was allowed to do most of the
davening.
Speaking of Golda's French
popularity reminds me of another
popular French Jewess, Gertrude
Stein. She was born in America,
but lived most of her life in France.
It was Miss Stein who wrote the
famous line, "A rose is a rose is a
rose." After that, no one was in
doubt as to what a rose was. A
rose is a rose. It is not an umbrella
or a trolley car.
Gertrude Stein influenced the
art of Picasso and is reckoned as
one of the great literary influences
of her day. She is supposed to
have influenced the style of Hem-
ingway and other of his contem-
poraries.
One generation before, there was
another French Jewess whose
name was known throughout the
world. The artist, Rosa Bonheur,
was noted for her paintings of
horses and other animals. Her
great painting, "Horse Fair" is
still one of the top attractions of
the Metropolitan Art Museum in
New York.
Raising of Torah
During Services:
RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(CoPYrig*rfill.JTAaite-)
It is customary for the - Torah
Scroll to be raised up and unrolled
in confrontation with the congre-
gation after its reading is com-
pleted in the synagogue.
The reason for this practice is
so that the congregation will get
the opportunity to look directly
at the script of the Torah (Masse-
ket Soferim 14:14). Several aims
are accomplished by having the
congregation look at the script.
First, this procedure brings
each and every congregant into
direct relationship with the Torah,
instead of having its content re.
main the cultural possession of
the chosen few. The basic scrip-
tures of- the Bible were never
meant to be an esoteric document.
Secondly, some claim that this
is a re-enactment of the Revela-
tion at Sinai where each and every
Jew came into a direct covenantal
relationship with the Almighty. It
brings into focus the idea that
the reading of the Torah is a joint
community experience In which
the entire congregation is engaged
and not one where the official
reader simply reads it to them.
He is actually reading with the
congregation and for the congre-
gation instead of to them. It is for
this reason that the individuals of
the congregation are required to
read along with the reader silently.
Some congregations raise up
BY
as to set the purpose. Some ex-
plain that the reason the Eshke-
nazic communities do this after
the reading because the con-
gregations were evidently under
the impression that is was most
important to see the script and
therefore they sometimes left after
seeing the script before the read-
ing took place. In order to keep
them in their places the raising
of the Torah was deferred until
after the reading took place so
that the people in the congregation
would wait' there until after the
reading in order to see the script
in the scrod when it was raised
up for them.
the scroll before the reading
while others do so after the
reading.
It is generally the Oriental Jew-
ish congregations (Sephardic)
who raise the Torah before the
reading while the Occidental (Esh-
kenazic) communities raise it after
the reading. It seems that orig-
inally the practice was to raise
the Torah before the reading so
as to set the proper tone and at-
mopshere for the reading as well
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A great many people, less
interested in art, knew et Rosa
Bonheur for another reason. She
wore pants. She was at least a
hundred years in advance of
some of her sisters of today.
According to the Universal Jew-
ish Encyclopedia, Rosa Bonheur
came of Orthodox Jews living in
Bordeaux, France and the original
name of the family was Mazel Tov.
Bonheur is the French equivalent
of Mazel Tov.
She had plenty of mazef-in her
painting. She is regarded as one
of the world's great painters, but
she didn't have mazel with men.
When asked why she never mar-
ried, she said no one ever fell in
love with her.
She said she liked skirts, but in
her studies of animals for her
paintings, she had to travel to
horse markets and other such
places where she found the long
skirts an annoyance. So she be-
came famous for her pants and
paintings.
As a child, she went to a school
in which she was the only girl
pupil, and she said herself that
sometimes she would get into
fights with the boys and used her
own mitts in combat with them.
This may help explain why she
never married. The men might
have been afraid she would slug
instead of kiss them. -
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