[Avodah] Vegetarians

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torahmike at gmail.com
> can anyone explain the gemora on BavaMetzia 85a, that says Rebbe was
> punished for telling a fleeing korbon, to go be a korbon?

> I never understood this gemora- What exactly did he do wrong? What should
> he have done? Tzaar baalei chaim isn't classically understood to require
> one to not kill an animal just because it doesn't want to be killed.

Clue to the "sin" of Rebbe

What cured him?
IIRC he took rachmanus on a cat being swept awy by the maid

Working backwards, apparently it was Rebbe's lack of empathy for the
animal that was the isssue, not that he should have altered his fate

Digression:
RYDS once had to tell a couple composed of cohen and giyores that the
shidduch must be dissolved.

The story goes that he paced "all night long" wrestling with this.

His talmiddim asked: "Rebbe, what's the question? The Halachah is
straightforward!"

RYDS replied: "But HOW do I tell them..?"

Source: R Julius Berman at a Hazkara.

AIUI
Rebbe could not have altered the fate of the animal, but for his madreiga,
he lacked eampathy for the animal's fate.

I think few of us are on that level that we can really see that as a
"character flaw". It was aisi a factor of being rabbeinu haqaosh.
Nevertheless we can still learn empathy for the suffering even for
the inevitable.

KT
RRw
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