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The Animal Kingdom in Jewish Thought addresses several areas of life in which the animal world plays a dominant role, all of which are steeped in Jewish law, custom, and tradition. Shlomo Toperoff presents a detailed study of sixty-five different species of animals, all found in the Bible and reviewed in alphabetical order. The first chapter begins by enumerating the laws of the Sabbath and Festivals as they relate to animals. The reader will learn that the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest, applies not only to human beings but also to the beasts of the field. The rabbis of the Talmud discuss extensively the degree to which the laws of the Sabbath may be violated for the purpose of rescuing an animal in danger. From feeding an animal on the Sabbath to putting a fish back into its tank, Jewish law displays a distinct sensitivity to the animal and its dependence upon man for its well-being. Animal welfare, a long-held concern of animal activists and pet owners, finds its roots in the Bible and in Jewish tradition, where mankind is warned not to hurt even the smallest of insects. Naming a newborn child after certain animals is a long-standing Jewish tradition. Toperoff provides an extensive list of biblical characters who have been named after animals. After discussing the various sources of post-talmudic literature that cover animal issues, from the Kuzari to Maimonides to Rav Kook, Toperoff dedicates an entire chapter to Perek Shirah, a small book by an unknown author, probably written in the tenth century, which has three parts: heaven and earth, plants, and animals. All three share one common aim: they all owe their allegiance to their Creator and sing songs of praise unto Him.
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reviewed Animal Kingdom in Jewish Thought on March 16, 2013
Animal Kingdom in Jewish Thought
Nicholls unequivocally states that Christian teaching is primarily responsible for antisemitism, fully documenting the manner in which this was done.
Here is a selection of Nicholls' arguments …
*** Christian antisemitism was a direct enabler of Hitler's Holocaust … every German "knew" that Jews were the enemy of German civilization because they had been taught over the long Christian centuries that the Jews were the enemy of Christian civilization … Hitler had "known" from childhood that Jews were bad because he had been brought up in a Catholic milieu … Hitler's antisemitic ideas were not created from nothing … without the widespread heritage of anti-Judaism and antisemitism put forward by Christianity, Hitler's extremism would have marked him for the madman he was … with few exceptions, the Christian world did not care about the Nazi onslaught against the Jews.
*** the root of the split between Christianity and Judaism as a struggle for possession of the Jewish Scriptures, centering on the role of the Messiah … if Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, his life, death and subsequent resurrection had to have been predicted in the Scriptures ... if Jesus was predicted, and Jews deny it, then Jews do not know how to read their own Scriptures ... if Jesus was not predicted, Christianity is either an illusion or something altogether novel, unprepared in the Bible, as the heretic Marcion argued in the 2nd century.
*** Jesus could not have been the Messiah the Jews expected and still expect … since he did not fulfill what the Messiah was to do … he did not free his land and people, nor did he inaugurate an age of universal righteousness and peace
*** Christianity has so successfully diverted attention from the historical facts of Jesus' death at the hands of the Romans that countless Christians believe that the Jews killed Christ … the supposed guilt of the Jews has echoed through history, justifying innumerable massacres
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