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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2008 11:47 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, December 31, 2007 10:37 pm, Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>: When the Torah says don't eat BLOOD are we entitled so say we LIKE to
<br>: eat Blood?<br>:<br>: The Gmara says YES<br><br>I find this startling. We have discussed in the past whether a mitzvah<br>implies that it is desirable for the person to align his middos<br>accordingly (the position of RYS), or whether that's only true for
<br>mitzvos sichliyos (the Rambam).<br><br></blockquote>
<div>If one says that blood is a chok, then one should say "I want to, but what can I do, as Avinu she'ba'Shamayim has forbidden it". </div>
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<div>But if one says that blood is a moral idea that the animal is a creation of Hashem's too, and we are permitted meat only for strengthening our yetzer haTov (see Ikkarim on why Noah was permitted meat, cited in the 5 volume green Artscroll book on the parsha, and see the similar explanation of Rav Kook in Nechama Leibowitz's chumash, I think in Devarim where chullin is permitted), then one should indeed inculcate in himself a repugnance towards blood, whereas for pork he might still say he wants to eat it.
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<div>Ikkarim says that to strengthen the difference between man and animal, God permitted meat (whereas PETA compares chickens and Holocaust victims, and evidently still requires the lesson that according to Ikkarim, can only be learned from eating meat).
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<div>Rav Kook says that we eat meat so that we can focus all our moral energy on bein adam l'chavero. However, when this task is complete, and we are fully strengthened, we will no longer eat meat, as Rav Kook says that eating meat is undesireable and shameful.
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<div>Mikha'el Makovi </div></div>