[Avodah] Shiluach Haken

[Alan Rubin]

Moshe Shulman

> One was that the Zohar says that performing this mitzvah is
> makarav Moshiach. He said the explanation is that when a Jew
> performs the mitzvah The Satan comes and complains to HaShem that
> it is cruel. But rather then angering HaShem at the Yidden, he is angry
> at the Satan and complains that for this bird you have mercy but for my
> children who are in exile and suffer, you have no mercy?

Do you understand that explanation? This is a reason for us to be
cruel to birds?

Alan Rubin