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"We have sold well over a ton and Tuesday. During a game last
of octopus since the playoffs be- weekend, the throwing began as
gan, and we expect to sell a min- the New Jersey Devils took to the
imum of a ton more before the ice. Dozens more were tossed at
finals are over," said Superior the first Red Wing goal, with
Fish co-owner Kevin Dean, a for- many more falling short of the ice
mer shotputter who distributes and landing on spectators seat-
fliers, teaching the proper tech- ed close to the rink.
Rabbi Aaron Bergstein of
nique to hurl an octopus, to cus-
Congregation Beth Abraham
tomers.
According to local lore, the tra- Hillel Moses, an avid hockey fan
dition began in 1952 when a fan, who has admittedly "lost a lot of
searching for something to sym- sleep" staying up to watch the
bolize the eight wins needed to games, said even those throws
clinch the Stanley Cup, flung the that miss the ice can violate
Jewish law.
first octopus on the ice.
"You may also have a problem
Like throwing down a gaunt-
let, the challenge has been met with publicly embarrassing
by fans ever since. Although ex- someone if you miss the ice and
pansion of the National Hockey hit a spectator," he said.
Rabbi Joshua Bennett of
League has increased to 16 the
number of wins needed for a Temple Israel agreed that octopi
championship title, Detroiters are needlessly wasted when
still see the octopus as a symbol tossed on the ice, and thus may
of a win and continue to lob them violate Jewish law.
from their seats.
Despite the good intentions of
the fans, the octo-throwing tra-
dition has more than a few peo-
ple upset with the way the
animal has been treated.
"You are not supposed to kill
indiscriminately. You are inflict-
"I am familiar with the cus-
ing pain on the creature. It is a
sick thing," said Rabbi Chaim tom," said Rabbi Bennett, a na-
Bergstein of Bais Chabad of tive of Chicago. "We don't do that
Farmington Hills. "For food, for in Chicago." (The Chicago Black
God, yes. But not for a goal Hawks were eliminated by
Detroit in the last round of play-
scored."
Rabbi Bergstein, a sports fan offs.)
Just as the number eight was
since childhood, feels the boiling
and tossing of the creatures onto the magic number of wins the
the ice is in violation of Jewish Wings needed to claim the Cup,
law. The Torah forbids any tor- Judaism, like the old days of
ture of animals, or killing those hockey, also has many references
to the number eight. There are
not to be used for food.
Even when animal sacrifice eight days between birth and a
was the norm in Jewish life, it brit milah, eight degrees of char-
was limited to certain creatures ity (Maimonides), eight days of
Chanukah, Shemini Atzeret falls
and done only when dictated.
"We offered sacrifices only be- eight days after Sukkot begins
cause God said so," Rabbi and Passover in the Diaspora has
Bergstein said. "God never said eight days as well.
While seven has signified
to throw an octopus on the ice
Shabbat, the number eight has
during a Red Wings game."
In addition, octopus, even meant an otherworldliness, a
when captured in a humane way, timelessness, said Rabbi
is not kosher and therefore could Bergstein.
"Anything with eight is beyond
not be killed for food.
"It is still a food for some peo- the Shabbas, above the sancti-
ple," said Rabbi David Nelson of fied world," he said.
"And I suppose by throwing
Congregation Beth Shalom. "And
my mother told me never to the octopus the hockey fans may
just be trying to reach that oth-
throw food."
That didn't stop hundreds of erworldliness of joy," he said,
fans who boiled their catch and chuckling at the thought. "That
brought it to the games Saturday is a reach, though."
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