[Avodah] animals and bechira??

[Lisa Liel]

On 1/15/2012 11:40 AM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> animals in medrash like dogs (who did not bark) in mitzrayim, are rewarded
> (by not withholding scraps from them). is this because they "consciously
> chose not to bark?
>    
Midrash isn't necessarily to be taken literally.

> what about the spiders that protected dovid hamelech during his flight
> from shaul hamelech??
> ---we reward them nowadays also by not killing them because of that----
>
>    
I don't.

Lisa