[Avodah] cruelty to animals......

[Zev Sero]

On 7/08/2011 2:34 AM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> 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.


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