Really? Then What Does It Say About The Dozens Of Rabbis Who ENDORSED Rubashkin?

Sent to me by PETA:

An exemplary mainstay of the lifestyle of halakhically-observant Jews is that they are willing to make sacrifices for the observance of Halakah.  Thus all halakhically-observant Jews keep kosher, though, as is well known, kosher meat is appreciably more expensive than non-kosher meat.  Similarly, a sizeable percentage of halakhically-observant Jews accept the more stringent requirement of glatt kosher meat -- though that meat is even more expensive.

But for a person to insist upon the most stringent requirements with regard to the ritual portion of the slaughtering process and yet at the same time flagrantly not insist upon stringent requirements with regard to the crucial moral aspect of the slaughtering process -- the necessity to guarantee beyond the slightest doubt that there is no tza'ar ba'alei hayyim (pain caused to animals) which is not absolutely essential to the slaughtering process -- makes the entire kashrut endeavor of that person both suspect and absurd.  It very well may be that any plant performing such types of shechita is guilty of hillul hashem -- the desecration of God's name -- for to insist that that God cares only about his ritual law and not about his moral law is to desecrate His Name.

Dr. Chaim Milikowsky
Chair
Talmud Department
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan
Israel

Comments

[na]

That's why this guy is a Dr at a University...With comments like that.

The truth of the matter is, it wouldn't matter if shechita was humane or not. You see, it's Hashems Will and it really doesn't matter what the goyishe velt thinks. If G-d wanted us to kill animals by lighting them on fire, that's what we'd do. However in His merciful will, he had mercy on the animals as well and thus prescribed a "humane" way of shechting them (humane in the eyes of the goyishe velt.)

[SK]

The above comment reflects a terrible ignorance of Torah and the ways of Hashem. As a Charedi Jew (and not a professor), I wish to assure this audience that Dr. Chaim Milikowsky (who I never heard of) is representing a legitimate point of view.

I certainly do not agree, though, that we should air our dirty laundry in public. And, I do not consider it constructive to denigrate the Rabbonim who supervise this plant.

As for the general public, who says that they knew how shechitta is done? I certainly didn't.

So, let's not criticize anyone.

[Clock]

The reason this laundry has to be aired in public is certain rabbis will do anything to suppress honest internal discussion is claim Losen Hara and if that doesn't work then excommunication.
Dear NA
If treating animals in a horrific way isn't a sin, what do you do for fun? Pour gasoline and dogs and light them up?