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\u201cWhen Ephraim spoke piety, He was exalted in Israel; But he incurred guilt through Baal, And so he died. And now they go on sinning; They have made them molten images, Idols, by their skill, from their silver, Wholly the work of craftsmen. <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span>\u201d <\/b><\/em>(vv. 1-2).<\/span><\/p>\n

The process described in these verses is clear \u2013 someone who begins with idol worship, forgetting the difference between truth and falsehood, between the Creator and His creations, will ultimately lose the ability to distinguish between man and animal. Such a person\u2019s moral instincts will lead them to prefer the calf to the human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

The beginning of the 20<\/span>th<\/span> century brought with it a number of groups calling for greater sensitivity to animal rights, and one of their main activities was the fight against kosher ritual slaughter. They claimed that ritual slaughter was inhumane. That it frightened the animal. That it caused animals to suffer. It would have been possible, of course, to take this argument to its logical end and declare all living creatures as equal and forbid consumption of meat. But that would have removed Wienerschnitzel from tables across Europe, so the argument was a different one: Animals must be stunned before slaughter in order to save living creatures from suffering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It may be worthwhile to make two points at this juncture. First, studies have shown that when properly performed, Jewish ritual slaughter actually causes less distress to animals than all other types of slaughter used in preparing animals for food (see Dr. Temple Grandin\u2019s <\/span>groundbreaking work on this issue<\/span><\/a>). Second, in \u201cenlightened\u201d Switzerland, kosher ritual slaughter is forbidden by law until this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is where we arrive at the verse in our chapter: <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> In 1934, when the public battle cry against kosher ritual slaughter reached a fever pitch, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, the preeminent rabbinic leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in Lithuania declared: <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> Those people crying out against kosher ritual slaughter \u2013 ostensibly due to their sensitivity to animal rights, will have no problem sacrificing human beings, even as they kiss calves.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few short years later, World War II broke out. The German people, who were very supportive of animal\u2019s rights groups, instituted laws requiring stunning before slaughter in all countries that they captured in the early years of the war. The only exception to this law was the slaughter of pigs, since the taste of pork was negatively affected by stunning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> When there are no absolute values, skewed values are the result. Ultimately, human beings are deemed less important than animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Translated from\u00a0Rabbi Yehudah Eisenberg’s\u00a0Hebrew original<\/a>\u00a0by hatanakh.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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