{"id":42345,"date":"2018-10-18T16:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=42345"},"modified":"2022-05-15T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T14:32:43","slug":"throw-it-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/throw-it-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw It To The Dog(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[660,366,436],"acf":{"old_id":"42345","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34891,"related_cahpter":"72","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Don\u2019t take the support of others for granted ","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chapter ends \u201cYou shall be holy people to Me: you must not eat flesh torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.\u201d (22:30). But that translation, while idiomatically sound, is not quite right. The Torah doesn\u2019t say \u201cto the dogs\u201d but \u201cto the dog,\u201d singular. \u00a0What dog does the Torah mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One interesting reading (see Ibn Ezra and Hizkuni there) is that \u201cthe dog\u201d in question is the dog who was guarding the flock. If a predator gets past the guard dog and mauls one of the flock, that animal cannot be eaten by us, but should be given to the dog. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially this might seem like it rewards failure: the dog didn\u2019t save the animal, so why should it get the meat? \u00a0Malbim explains: The dog may not have been totally successful, but it was partially so &#8211; that\u2019s why the animal has not been devoured or carried off by the predator. \u00a0For saving at least something (and something that has value, at least as dog food), the dog gets a reward. \u201cThrow it to the dogs\u201d becomes not an expression of disgust but a positive imperative: the dog deserves this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim continues: \u201cEven though animals are not creatures of reward and punishment, because their activity is natural (instinctive), The Blessed Holy One said, \u2018Give him his reward,\u2019 for from this a person will learn ethics, to know the ways of God, that all the more so there is reward and punishment for a human, who has free choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim speaks of \u201crewards\u201d not as a form of behavioral conditioning applicable to nonhuman animals, but a system of divine justice that only makes sense for humans. \u00a0It\u2019s not that the dog understands that it gets this treat for doing its job, nor that the dog will therefore be more likely to work hard in the future. 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