On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eli Turkel</b> <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
An old question is the connection between reasons for mitzvot and<br>their observance.<br><br><br>kol tuv<br><br>--<br>Eli Turkel<br></blockquote></div><br>My Yore Deiah Rebbe - R. Yosef Weiss - decried production-linee shechita as removing the sensitivity required in taking a life. He posited that a reason for Shechita was to contemplate how serious it is to take animal's life by adding a lot of highly riualized steps. And by making production lines, it has devolved into something akin to making a Model T. The feeling and seriousness is gone - especially for fowl.
<br><br clear="all">There are those who say: "We are ONLY concerned with the Halacha and not the possible ta'amei Hamitzvos". But I think Eli T. has a valid point; that a good chunk of of what Torah and Mitzvos is about is to make us better people. Circumventing this with modern technology can rob us of the spiritual essence or economic benefit of a mitzva..
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