24 Friday, August 1, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Tradition Restricts method of Slaughter
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX •
(Copyright. 1975, JTA, Inc.)
Jewish tradition requires
a very restrictive procedure
in killing an animal which is
permissable for food.
A number of reasons are
offered in various texts of
rabbinic literature. Some
claim that this parallels the
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procedure which is required
in order to bring an animal
for a sacrifice on the altar.
The Jewish table represents
the altar. Thus the animal
must be killed in the same
way in which it was killed
for the act of sacrifice.
Rabbi Bahya comments
that before the flood in the
days of Noah man was per-
mitted only a vegetarian
diet of fruits and vegetables.
It was only after the flood,
as his desire increased with
great pressure, that he was
allowed to eat the flesh of
animals.
Maimonides explains that
the permission to eat meat
was a special dispensation
allowed man because his
natural diet should have
Jews, in the course of been strictly vegetarian.
their travels through the This dispensation to eat
wilderness, were allowed . meat was only given if men
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would be as compassionate
in his slaughter of the ani-
mal as possible.
The Jewish method of
slaughter (shehita) is the
most compassionate method
of slaughter. Nachmanides
raises the question of the
right of man to take the life
of another living creature.
He hints that man, a
higher being because of his
intellect, was given this
right provided he did the
killing in the most humane
manner. Some' commentar-
ies indicate that the proce-
dure of shehita was re-
quired of a Jew who wished
to eat meat as a possible
means of discouraging him
from eating meat whose
preparation required so
many technicalities.
The very procedure of kill-
ing an animal properly is in-
volved with so many details
that, at least, it shows man
how much care and concern
should be involved before
taking the life of a fellow
creature, especially to see to
it that a minimum of pain
and discomfort is caused.
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to eat the meat only if it
came from animals that
were brought as a sacrifice
in the sanctuary. Only
some time later were Jews
allowed to slaughter ani-
mals for food alone, pre-
sumably because they
werieat times too far away
from the sanctuary. Even
then the procedure of
slaughter was still the
same as was done for the
altar.
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