[Avodah] Cruetly to animals and shabbat

garry gk at garry.us
Mon Aug 8 08:44:14 PDT 2011


On 8/8/2011 7:08 AM, R.Sero <zev at sero.name>
>> if it is assur to allow cruelty to animals (rebbe suffere for 13/7?) years for not
>> telling a calf/kid a kind word), then why are we allowed to leave a fallen animal
>> in a bor, all shabbas to suffer (eg, broken bones, etc)

> What choice do we have?  What heter is there to move it?

>> are there chilul hashem issues also involved, eg, if goyim walk by and see us
>> running home to chulent, while a donkey or horse brays in pain??

> How is that a mattir for chilul shabbos?  If we start doing averos because
> of what the goyim will think, there goes the entire Torah.

So we don't rescue nachriim's lives on Shabbos?



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