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Should we be Vegetarian Does the encourage it 02 26 2025

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay, we left off last week. Oh, first of all, first of all, today's is um >> okay, what' you say? We we we left off last week in middle we spoke about this um this interesting idea of that kay the ra wrote in the name of his rabbi about possibly having uh you know outlawing meat possibly uh you know outlawing meat possibly banning meat because it's etc. We started touching it a little bit and I want to go a little bit more into detail to uh kilu explain why that's a far out but uh I need to I need to give a shikama to that for for to to to start that. So, so as follows, um, in general, it's a big shil. When you look at a mitzvah, is it is there like a t and the mitzvah the mitzvah is because of x, y, and z, the mitzvah is because of x, y, and z, or is the mitzvah because that's why you do the mitzvah. Now, there's certainly elements of both and there are mitzvah that fit better into one basket than the other one. But I want to talk about that sugu a little bit about how you go to to look at mitzvah look at the mitzvah and we'll get we'll we'll circle back around to and the ramifications and this this idea that we that we mentioned at the end of last week. So now just for starters the I guess a little bit the the

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  1. 0:02Okay, we left off last week. Oh, first of all, first of all, today's is um
  2. 3:05do you think hem does something without a reason and a few more these and he
  3. 6:12from So the there's a mission in on on sorry and it's also in that says
  4. 9:46when a person says like his is everybody but me me you can't take care of
  5. 12:56two says that's not the the and like the other that says that you're allowed to
  6. 16:32adds that also. So those are the same. They're in the same boat, you know, pointing
  7. 19:42of the Mishna is you know you say more it's because of something else you have
  8. 22:45if you shaft from the neck you sh the front you shaft from the back. This
  9. 26:19about the about you know to answer this question of you have to keep in mind
  10. 29:22you'll find in different uh angles like this either you'll say so basically just to to

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