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Fun and Kosher
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Fun and KosherToday it has become popular to accompany educational materials with illustrations, including
depictions of animals. In such cases, it is appropriate to use pictures of only Kosher animals.
Similarly, when a child is given an animal toy, it should resemble a Kosher animal.
Fun and Kosher
Disc 61, Program 241
Event Date: 20 Cheshvan 5744 - October 27, 1983
Today it has become popular to accompany educational materials with illustrations, including depictions of animals. In such cases, it is appropriate to use pictures of only Kosher animals. Similarly, when a child is given an animal toy, it should resemble a Kosher animal. There is clear precedent for this in Jewish law: It is well known, the extreme care taken after immersing in the Mikva to avoid seeing an impure animal. How much more so do we see in Jewish custom that when a baby is born we surround it only with holy images. As we ready ourselves for the imminent Redemption, we must begin to “live” with the Redemption: At that time, “G-d will banish the spirit of impurity from the earth.” Already now, then, wherever possible, people should surround themselves only with pure and holy things. |
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Jonathan Solomon
October 30, 2021
God will be metaher the chazir not eliminate it when mashiach comes. Not as suggested here.
Simcha Bart
October 31, 2021
The Rebbe is not saying that those animals won't exist when Moshiach comes. Rather to live Moshiach type of experience even now, is to have the least possible exposure to non-pure just as then impurity will be removed from the earth.
Jonathan Solomon
October 31, 2021
I see. But there's a world of difference between a chazir miraculously made tahor by He Who created it to begin with and simply eliminating it from present-day environs. I wonder how much true spiritual value there is in the latter and how much merely provides psychic rewards to those redoing the pictures, games, etc. Eilu v'eilu.
Choni
October 28, 2021
there we go again: we had in history horses, donkey's, dogs
Maschiach will ride a donkey
jack chazanow
Far Rockaway
June 28, 2026
Why are there lions on the aron hakodesh?
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