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For many generations and up to present times, our foremost poskim had to deal with the demand of the various governments to halt shechita according to Halochoh, which was termed "the decree against shechita." Often the authorities called for stunning livestock before the slaughter by electric shock, as is done by gentiles, while poskim are convinced that the shock is not a step towards the shechita and killing the animal, but it directly causes the death of the animal.
Pressure is mounting in various countries to implement the shock procedure due to the demands of organizations against animal cruelty. This has brought certain communities to try to find a less drastic solution of a weaker stunning with a lower electric voltage, so as to placate the authorities as well as the organizations to help animals.
Over a century ago, Dr. Shlomo Lieben, an expert physician from Prague, attempted the shock treatment with lesser voltage to bring animals to a prone position so that the shock would not cause the animal to be treif. But his experiments only proved that shock treatment of even minimal electric current could not avoid a serious danger of treifos.
Similar experiments were tried in many countries throughout Europe, the results being altogether the same. The opinion of the author of "Sridei Eish", who originally leaned towards allowance of stunning animals, later retracted.
For all purposes, all poskim throughout the world have forbidden this procedure in any way or form.
Famed Yated cartoonist Rabbi Yoni Gerstein had a number of things to express about behavior in the Covid-19 epidemic, and he did so in his inimitable way.
On Tuesday June 30, a plaintiff group led by the Association of Jewish Camp Operators, AJCO, as well as parents of potential campers, presented oral arguments in their case against New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo.
AJCO, founded by Agudath Israel of America to represent the interests of the Orthodox Jewish summer camp community and parents, are requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction allowing overnight camps to open this summer.
Dovid Hamelech said that he always kept Hashem in sight. Dovid Hamelech had an unusually close relationship with the Ribono Shel Olom but nonetheless, after all this he still had things to learn about proper conduct in a beis medrash. The Mashgiach HaRav Meir Chodosh zt"l said that he was so grateful and appreciative of someone who taught him just two things, that he called him his rebbe and his commander and his teacher.
It was Achitofel who saw Dovid sitting alone and learning, and he asked him why he was sitting alone when it says, "A sword to those who are alone." And Dovid Hamelech accepted the criticism.
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