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<font size=3>At 09:57 AM 2/6/2008, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: "Alan Rubin"
<alanrubin1@gmail.com><br>
While browsing in a bookstore a few days ago I came across a book on<br>
Shiluach Hakan. I was a little surprised that there was enough to<br>
write about this mitzvah to fill a book I had a brief look through
its<br>
pages and I was a little surprised by some of what I
read.</font></blockquote><br>
I am curious as to which sefer this is as my machitan wrote one.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Now if you think
about it there are three attitudes one could have to<br>
this mitzvah.<br>
1. To actively seek out nests to perform the mitzvah on.<br>
2. To not actively seek out nests but to perform the mitzvah if one<br>
came across one<br>
3. To only perform the mitzvah if one needed eggs from a nest.<br>
I had always assumed that No 3 was correct. And if the mitzvah is at<br>
least partly to do with minimising pain to animals then to send away<br>
the mother bird when one does not really need the eggs is<br>
contradictory. Now I only glanced at the book for a few seconds but
I<br>
was surprised that there could even be a hava aminah that 1 was<br>
correct or that there was a body of opinion that 2 was
correct.</font></blockquote><br>
Why would you think that?<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3> I was also
surprised that there was an opinion that everyone should<br>
try and perform this at least once in their life. There was a<br>
suggestion (R. Vital?) that one would be brought back as a gilgul<br>
until one had performed every mitzvah. According to this opinion
would<br>
one be brought back as a gilgul if one had not performed the<br>
commandments relating to eshes yefas toar? Now I am aware of the<br>
promised rewards for shiluach hakan but I cannot believe we are<br>
supposed to be tramping through woods frightening birds to secure
long<br>
life.</font></blockquote><br>
The view of the Ari is that one is required to do every mitzvah and one
could be m'galgil if one did not.<br><br>
<font size=3>Last year I was in Israel for a kiddish for a grandchild and
before I left i spent some time with my machiton and he discussed this
mitzvah with me. He had be zochah to arrange for a number of great rabbis
to perform it (including the late Satmar Rov) Unfortunatly it was in the
wrong time of the year for me to do it. He related a number of things to
me. One was that the Zohar says that performing this mitzvah is makarav
Moshiach. He said the explanation is that when a Jew performs the mitzvah
The Satan comes and complains to HaShem that it is cruel. But rather then
angering HaShem at the Yidden, he is angry at the Satan and complains
that for this bird you have mercy but for my children who are in exile
and suffer, you have no mercy? He also told me that the egg is placed in
the cholent. (I believe he heard this from the great makibal Rabbi
Yeshaya Asher Margulious.)</font></body>
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