{"id":45342,"date":"2018-12-08T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45342"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:27:57","slug":"when-meat-is-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-meat-is-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"When Meat Is Murder"},"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":[416,762,547],"acf":{"old_id":"45342","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":43740,"related_cahpter":"107","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Illegitimate slaughter is no misdemeanor","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus 17 employs the legal terminology of murder to the improper killing of a sacrificial animal, i.e., a sheep, goat, or large cattle. When an Israelite slaughters a sacrificial animal without making it a sacrifice, for Leviticus 17, it is the equivalent of shedding human blood! Verse 4 says that <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dam yechashev la\u2019ish ha-hu, dam shafakh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cBloodguilt will be imputed to that man, he has shed blood.\u201d Jacob Milgrom writes that, \u201cThe accusation is one of murder, equivalent to the one who by spilling the blood of a human being forfeits his life.\u201d <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dam shafakh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an expression used in Genesis 9:6 and elsewhere for the intentional murder of a human being. Milgrom explains that the slaughter of an animal can only be expiated if its blood is returned to its Creator via the sacrificial altar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all, God\u2019s intention in Genesis 1:29-30 \u00a0was that humankind be vegetarian; eating meat was only post-flood concession to the human tendency to violence, but only if the animal\u2019s blood was not consumed (Genesis 9:4). Therefore, Leviticus uses the charge of bloodshed to motivate the Israelite to utilize an authorized altar rather than slaughter the animal in a non-sacrificial setting. \u00a0Now, if the person who slaughters an animal in this illegitimate manner is indeed guilty of murder, why is he\/she not punished with capital punishment? The only punishment mentioned in Leviticus 17 is <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">karet<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201ccutting off,\u201d the premature termination of one\u2019s family line (v.9), a punishment imposed by God. When a person is murdered, the \u201credeemer of blood,\u201d or closest relative, is responsible for the execution of the guilty party. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innocent animals, however, have no \u201credeemer of blood\u201d as do humans, so God plays the role of the animal\u2019s \u201credeemer.\u201d \u00a0Baruch Levine terms the use the language of homicide in this case as \u201chyperbole,\u201d and while that it true, evident is the seriousness with which the Torah views the slaughter of animals and the illicit disposal of their blood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: redhope on flickr, 2008 \/\u00a0 CC BY-NC 2.0<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":106138,"id":106138,"title":"-62c1b56b3ee49--62c1b56b3ee4alev17-meat is 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