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Afraid of a lion On animals and men 11 03 2024

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Welcome all. Um I wanted to discuss today uh a topic about humans controlling animals and and I'll I'll explain what I mean. Agurat we understand that humans are allowed to eat animals in the end of of after came out of the um permission was granted to humans to eat animals and the is replete with dinim that apply to when humans want to eat animals. or how to handle it the mitzvah of Adam of the sur of certain parts of the animal and like the elaborates on clearly it's permitted for human beings to eat uh animal flesh when they want to um it's something that's healthy for them there's there's many that mention that it's healthy for humans to eat uh you know animal proteins maybe not to the point of overconumption maybe not too much and there's limitations but clearly human beings are allowed to consume animals um when it's for their need. Additionally, we understand that humans are allowed to harness the the brute force of animals to use to put them to work. For example, you're allowed to, you know, have a cow or a donkey or a horse and use it whatever you need, be it to plow or to pull a card or push a card or whatever it is. And this again we know because the terra is replete within that how a human being is supposed to treat his animal employees. And based on that we clearly see that the allowed humans to to use animals for consumption and to use them for labor and etc. Now the I

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  1. 0:00Welcome all. Um I wanted to discuss today uh a topic about humans controlling animals and
  2. 2:43humans and and animals are afraid of humans but lamesa most humans are afraid of animals.
  3. 5:52denil in in parag. Now Danielle found himself in the in the king's house and he
  4. 9:04tries to think of a way that he could save and the say that that until
  5. 12:22He he so to speak showed each creature in the world the face of as they
  6. 15:34I work very peacemail. I do only a little bit of work at a time and
  7. 18:12was said about my shaharitz um who was the r of pins his in the back
  8. 21:25animals you know just for for your viewing pleasure he seems to feel would not be
  9. 24:37damage to your household but and to from there to a might be still a stretch
  10. 27:49of the animal kingdom. Now, there is one more another another nudha that I think I've

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