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size=2>From: "Simon Krysl" <A
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size=2>>>I am writing in the hope for a possible insight on perhaps a
technical - but<BR>to me no less perplexing - question. The Kitzur Shulkhan
Arukh (126.4),<BR>based on Magen Avraham 224.3, prohibits attending "animal
shows" presented<BR>by goyim, as well as dances and other joyful occasions, as
moshavei leicim.<BR>R. Avrohom Davis translates "kenignaot" as "animal shows"
which, I assume,<BR>would concern circuses and similar, yet an explanatory note
( in the text of<BR>the Kitzur itself?) in the Hebrew explicates kenignaot as
"ceid hayot", that<BR>is, hunts. (I do not find any etymology or explanation of
the word<BR>"kenignaot" elsewhere.) <<</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>>>><BR>I will make a guess -- that "kenig" is the
Yiddish word for "king" and that what is being referred to here is the kind of
"animal show" that would be put on for kings, for example, some kind of
tournament or staged combat where knights on horses joust in an arena,
with one of them ending up dead. The old Roman gladiator
contests, and Spanish bull fighting, and even Wild West rodeos, also come
to mind. (However, in rodeos humans aren't hurt and animals aren't killed
for the amusement of the crowd, so they aren't so bad in my
mind.)<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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