Bereishis: Meet Kayin and Hevel - Animal Rights in Jewish Thought

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I in is 70 known as 50. guess is eight 208. and Yitzhak is 208. and the word Raza is also 208 so it's a hint to his name Frida writes in the Shema that later on in history someone the brother of the marami Prague wrote A Commentary in Pontiac Rosa his name was also yet that the two years contributed to the safer paneer crosses answers you're right Kyan was older so why doesn't the Torah tell us about the profession of cayenne before Heather it does it does tell us about Italian succession you know what cayenne's profession was khanisi ishem he was a Colo man he sat in the basement he learned all that that's what his mother saw in him when his mother looked into his eyes when he was born his mother saw a future time so she said khanisi is that was his profession had those profession was signed he was a Shepherd but then Cayenne he's sitting in the basement and he says hey what's going on over here hey Heather went out into the workplace so why don't I go out into the workplace so what did hevo do he calls the gemara and he went out and he became a farmer says that's okay right Kyan followed his brother hevel he became a farmer did not do the right thing every person in life has his area that he is destined to succeed and Excel in and a person should not say well that person is working so I should work that person is learning so I should learn one's decision in their career path should have nothing at all to do with anybody else one has to decide on their own right I need to do what my talents my abilities allow me to do what my area of expertise is so Cayenne made a big mistake his mother saw he was Hashem and therefore that's how he began his career but then when he saw what Heather was doing he said well if heavilo should go out and work I should also go ahead and work so this is a very big limo this is a very big muscle Haskell that one in general in life you know usually for people to succeed in this world the worst thing they could do is hmm let me see what he's doing what has he got to do with you I have to do right leave your damn Mara snasha every person knows what his strengths are what his weaknesses are what his abilities are cayenne had a certain career choice that he was destined to excel at havell had his career choice and for Kion to forsake his Destin path because of what his brother did right nowhere Asheville ever criticized for being a farmer no God loves tevo God accepted hevel's carbon that was what heaven was cut out for but when Cayenne sees his brother's career path and for him to copy it we're not copycats and this is a lesson in life in general it's a lesson for parents some parents say oh my kids are going to work all my kids are going to learn you can't do that you can't cook you cut them every individual has to understand on their own what their chosen path should be that's something very obvious it decided to lie and go to work it's not good my blood's gonna be you're gonna do the opposite so that Paul can go to study look everyone has Harvey OSU corruption tomorrow says it's not for everybody in fact the brisker of Hoskins hello Phila Mesa in the magoicus between reps says that's work Ed right the briskarov the Grizz passkins the normative path is if somebody wants to say you know um it's not for everybody some people mistakenly choose that path so the same way the same way Cayenne is criticized for leaving his chosen path person could make a mistake the other way too okay let us move on very interesting the pasta goes on to say that Cayenne brings a carbon it's not accepted hevel brings the carb in right it is accepted why does God accept Havel's carbon and not cayenne's carbon so Rashi says because Cayenne brought me you know me pre is mashma me Prius inferior quality stuff he didn't give the best stuff but Cayenne but have El brought me the best stuff right have a brought the juiciest fattest sheep right that you can make really good lamb chops from and Heather brought you know the schwacha Flynn you know really the ice the linen so so that's why Hashem offers another shot first you know first heavel gave to God and then he decided which sheep would belong to him now Cayenne first chose what would belong to him and whatever was the Sharia and whatever was left over that's what he brought to Hashem okay then what happens Hashem accepts carbon Hashem ejects carbon Cain is depressed he's despondent he's down God why are you rejecting my car my coven so God gives him he says hello I am says God gives him the whole speech what's the very next classic and cayenne said to Heaven's brother was when they were in the field so I have a question for you and it was when they were in the field and he killed him well what happened you know what it seems like seems like a guy went into the safe for Terror he cut out a possum what did he say what do you say it doesn't say okay but you're kind I'll have a lot of Kinds set to Heaven it doesn't say what he said and then he killed him okay says the film again who is stronger kainer Heather the matter shrava says hevel was a lot stronger than kindness after all Kyan the mother saw Cayenne Cayenne was you know a small short little Jew but he looked like a smart little kid you go into the basement Heather was a big runny guy you know he worked out he had big muscles Heather was much stronger than kind of heaven was out picking up the Sheep kind was supposed to be in the basement kind was a you know uh you know but kind wanted to kill Heather so you know what he used to do he used to always go with him okay my brother my dear brother oh how I love you my dear brother that's when you have to get nervous right that's when you have to get so he always used to call him brother so so have a so kind she left his guard down and then after he let his guard then that's when he was gonna get him like the posix says and to heal him I am you speak peace with your friend and then at the night you stabbed him in the back right you know what he said to him oh my brother ah and then okay says the gra that's the Hashem comes to tie in and he says where's half of your brother what what is heavily your brother why did Hashem have to say your brother there's only one heavil in the world it's not like you know the Yellow Pages they're four people there's Adam right there's Eve there's Kane right and evil right so why does it have on your brother what there's another have all there's like there's a rhinoceros named Tempo there's only one Heather so it says the garage something where's that guy heavily constantly called brother brother brother brother where is he now okay that's the shot of the vulner gun then there is an ebenezera this is Vanessa I remember as a kid I grew up in aguras Israel based and Flatbush I remember says the human Ezra Hashem and he says Cayenne what are you so down about what are you so depressed about you're upset I didn't accept your carbon your carbon was you know was uh minhagaru it was inferior quality hello imtative says you want to bring me a nice gishmaker carbon I'll accept that thinks himself wow that was a very powerful muscle schmooze boy do I know someone who needs to hear she moves like that Hashem must have meant when he spoke to me that I should tell it over to Heaven because I can't think of anybody who would need such a schmooze says the Ebenezer look at number eight it would seem to me you know what kind said to heaven the whole monster schmooz that God says to Cayenne cayenne's thinking to himself you know wow boy do I need to tell somebody that sheer right that's human nature you hear a good power from muscle and the first thing that comes to mind is let me quickly write down all the people I could think of that need to hear about this right but who said when it comes to self-deception every man is a genius who says that George Bernard son right when it comes to self-deception every man is a genius that's what they've been Ezra is saying that you can have God looking you straight in the eye telling you exactly what you need to hear here Cayenne is despondent that God did not accept his carbon Hashem is explaining why and kinds thinking himself boy do I need to go tell this to Heaven okay that is the shadow of you Vanessa comes along tagami xiaomi now very interesting right the gamaron brocco says like we mentioned the person should say the Flemish twice targum once which hargum Uncle specifically uncles why Uncle us because uncle's was given from harsinai what do you mean uncle said uncles again was a tradition he had from Israel was not written by rabbianism sorry to burst your bubble Afghanistan venusio they're not right Robinson benazil wrote The Target looking and when he ex when he exposed it to the world writers is just a different version of xiaomi that's just the name the printers gave to the first time to distinguish it from regular tag mushami is not what I said is what the writes okay look at the time you show me you know what Cayenne said to heaven foreign let's go out into the field and talk they go out into the field third line less then so let's dying there's no judgment in this world there is no judge in the world there's no world to come there's no reward is there is no punishment for the wicked in other words what's he doing he is being that's what he said and hevel turns back to him he says no istan B is dying this piranhas in other words you know what kind said to hevel before I kill you let me just give you the introduction to this act you're probably wondering why I'm about to kill you so let me explain to you because there's no damn and there's no dying and there's no Island there's no Gahanna so nothing to worry about by the way says the Ariza if Kyan said let's dim the less dying we won't spoke about this who is the gilgal of cayenne Cayenne had three gogulum you come Tayan yes right kairak mitsri the first Gilgo of Cain was Israel what's Israel's contribution because he's the gilgle of cayenne and cayenne said less than the less dying so yes sir comes to fix that up okay but that's a different topic for a different time by the way just a few interesting uh ideas cayenne and hevel besides being Brothers they were twins cricketer blesser says he could look number two in number Ten kind of Heaven were telling him and they had an arrangement and the arrangement was it was like yusaka zabulon Italian worked the land he gave his the veggies to heaven heaven worked with the animals he gave the meat the and the sharings to to cayenne and that was the deal it comes the night of pesach and other mauritian Accenture says no you know my entire Kindle by the way tonight is the night of pesach and the future of Kalisa are going to bring many carboners tonight so you should bring Carbones tonight so they decide to bring a carbon now we all know this is very interesting yeah one of the classic is shatness yep why why are you not wear shortness it's inexplicable we don't understand but we understand why if you buy a Giorgio Armani suit you got to take it uh right to a guy to rip open the lapel I mean we understand that what's the difference whether you know it has that string in the lapel you know it matters if if you know the button is is fun with the siren who cares we don't understand it's a classic mother this is not a Giorgio Armani suit hat box right um oh it matters it's a hike we don't understand right that says the particular developer reveals to us a very profound reason for the issue of shatness and that is cayenne's card what's cayenne's carbon um veggies says what Zara piston right piston black linen right linen Sinai what part of the sheep the world says the pictures of leather there's a place for evil in the world but not anywhere near us you can't have an ad mixture of cayenne in heaven right where when you have something which is pure which is kadosh which is tahar you can't allow add mixtures and there's a place raw has its place evil has its place in the world but you can't you can't dilute heavily you can't dilute that which is good with any taint of something which is improper okay now we're up to the fun part okay and this is really a major essay a major understanding in the whole episode of cayenne and hevel but before we get to that again what is what does cayenne say to have Hashem says to Cayenne we always have Allah he says what I don't know so count on uhevsky to learn else from the response of cayenne what's Allah I tell you you know watch um watch my watch for me right here's my watch okay come back an hour later where's my watch oh first let's talk about it let's say let's say uh you say Where's that I was balancing it on my finger on top of the Empire State Building and it just uh you know it blew down so what's the so the the showman the guard is responsible why Shia negligence but what if he I come back to him and say where's my wife she says I don't know your daddy where do we learn this from from cayenne's response he says am I a shiner which implies but if I was a shiner I couldn't say I don't know that would have been negligence but now that I'm not ashamer I'm allowed to sailor dancing in other words because I'm not a shimmer I could say look at that okay comes the safer ikram and the save for her Akram makes an absolutely amazing deal was created bit Selena like him in the image of God but when Cayenne is born that Cayenne it doesn't say he was born in the in the image of God when hevel was born it doesn't say he has created an image of God and then later on at the end of the parachute says that when Chase is born Chase was born born of God why is that why a Cayenne is not creating the image of God Heaven is not creating the image of God and the third son chases so it says the safer holy Graham let's analyze the career Paths of cayenne in heaven Cayenne chose to do what to be a farmer Heather chose to be a shepherd Cayenne choose to be a farmer you know Italian said he said when I go home at night what does Mom serve for her supper Mom puts on my plate brussels sprouts spinach barley wheat veggies and my pet dog Rover what does he eat for supper mom gives him brussels sprouts mom gives him spinach barley we're eating the same thing so guess what me and Rover we're all the same maybe I'm a little bit more sophisticated maybe have a little bit more intelligence but the way Cayenne looked at the world I'm not any better than the animals after all we're eating the same thing for dinner when I go to Key Food there's no such thing as you know kosher food Italian food dog food it's all the same right it's food food for cayenne hevel and Rover and the same on the same aisle we're all eating the same thing and and you are what you eat right you are what you eat you are what you eat and therefore all the same so kind says I'm going to be a shepherd what right do I have to tell sheep what to do I'm going to tell this chefsela to go here go there that's not what God wants this sheep should be allowed to choose where he wants to go and therefore Cayenne said the only thing I have superiority over are the Brussels sprouts and the spinach and the barley and the wheat and therefore what am I going to offer to God veggies and that's what Cayenne did and that's what kind of job Cayenne did for a living he was a farmer heavil was a little smarter hevel understood that human beings are greater than animals only that we have more intelligence than them in their best interest for us to tell the Sheep where to go after all if the Sheep are going to follow their own desires they're going to end up walking into the lion's den or the Wolf's Den so therefore since we have more intelligence than the Sheep God wants us to direct the Sheep we're all the same basically we're the same we're not really inherently greater we just happen to be more sophisticated and therefore Havel's career path was Shepherd but hevel also made the mistake that human beings are not really greater than Animals by the way this is all from the safer Hall icarim say for Akram was earned by review Joseph Aldo and of the great reshine him so basically how do we understand these two attitudes Cayenne fuels animals and humans are equal heavily feels humans are a little bit greater just with more intelligence and we're able to guide them by the way that's why heava was a Shepherd what kind of carbon does haval bring Havel says you know what God doesn't allow us to kill animals after all killing an animal in Heaven's mind is murder it's cold-blooded murder what's the difference between animals and human beings but to offer something to God you know what hevel says God is superior to humans and animals so therefore we want to offer him something that demonstrates that he is superior to this class so what am I going to do I'm going to go to my mother and I'm going to offer him as a carbon I'm going to go to my brother I'm gonna go to my father no I'll go to Rover yeah we're all the same but I'm not gonna go to my family and that's what hevel did how do we understand both of these attitudes both of these attitudes are absolute at the carsus heresy it's heretical it's heretical certainly to think that humans are equal to animals it's heretical to think human beings are just a little bit more sophisticated than animals both of these things if you believe them you have a fundamental crack in your hash kafa that's a nice way of saying it by the way says to say for Akram which one is worse well in a way it's worse to think that human beings are equal to uh animals and that's what God rejected cayenne's carbon and he accepted hevels but when Cayenne comes to kill Heather you know what God says which one of these two philosophies are more likely to be accepted by the world complete left-wing liberalism no one's going to believe that so I don't have to deal with Kai and I could let him live but moderate liberalism people might buy into that so therefore one kind comes to kill hevel I ain't stopping him because as bad as Cayenne is nobody's gonna believe that but Heather he understood human beings were greater and more sophisticated but he believed that in general we're the same class and therefore when Kyan comes to kill hevel God said I ain't stopping because I don't want this philosophy spreading in the world okay so what happens Cayenne is watching okay they're ready for this kind is watching as his brother Heather takes a knife and Shacks a sheep what he's a righteous he's a murderer a cold-blooded murder to kill an animal animals and human beings are all the same so you know what Cayenne Cayenne comes up with the following conclusion it must be that if God doesn't is not punishing hevel for killing an animal you're allowed to murder your latter murder so kind says if he could kill the Sheep then I could kill him and there's no difference at all see how dangerous this type of philosophy is when people start standing up for animal rights it's dangerous it's dangerous to human life it's close to murder it's currently in that car that say circumstance as soon as Kai and saw Heather kill the animal Kyan became a cold-blooded murderer without a coincidence that in countries that are strong Advocates of animal rights supposed to be the opposite if evil actually killed that if careful have a killed an animal that means you'll add a murder I know what it is he sees there's no repercussions that means Hashem Hashem is masking Hashem gives us comma so Cayenne therefore when Kyan sees Heather kill the animal kind gets up he kills hell yeah can kill him yeah whether this fits exactly with the Italian xiaomi this is another you know another approach to the episode okay but that's that's what happened so basically where the safaricom is giving us Insight a into the career Paths of cayenne and Heather Cayenne chooses to be a farmer or why because he doesn't feel it's right to to guide animals hevel chooses to be um to be a to be a Shepherd he understands the supremacy of human beings but not really they're both off they're both distorted philosophies this explains why Cayenne decided to offer what he offered in heavily decide to offer what he offered heavil offers an animal he understands human beings have a certain degree of Supremacy Cayenne offers the veggies to God but once Ty wants hevel kills the animal kind kills Heather so Hashem says to Kai and you're making a big mistake it's true it says in safer eel that when a human being is born man is born a wild meal yeah we're born like animals but hallo's Ace the purpose of life is to improve yourself that you're not an animal and because of that potential that man has to imitative says that is why human beings are Supreme Over animals but Cayenne still doesn't get the point he can't get it he can't understand that not only can he not understand that he has descendants he has grandchildren and these philosophy continues on but nowhere in the children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren do we ever hear one word that any of them were born but like him the image of God you know why because this was not something the world could understand yet the world could not understand that human beings are not just more sophisticated animals they kept on feeling that you know we're just yeah more and more Progressive until Chase is born and when Chase is born he gets the point that a human being is a divine creature is a Divine being and everything in this world was created to serve man because any time it's not that we we are cruel to any living creature it is elevating that it's an elevation for them because a human being has the the tell him like him has a nishma is created in the image of God when a human being uses that which exists in this world obviously in a manner of rahmanas and sensitivity but nevertheless everything in this world is created for man's use and it's an elevation that's why I make a bracha when you eat something you make a broccoli because it's an elevation for that thing to be used by the other not showing and not until Chase was born did mankind understand this idea and ultimately Hashem said sorry Cayenne sorry have El I have to wipe you all out because we can't have a world planet Earth cannot be successful with this philosophy because when people have the philosophy that human beings are even greater than animals but are just greater animals that leads to Bloodshed that leads to murder that leads to chaos maybe not now but eventually that's the natural consequence it's a natural consequence and God said we can't have a world like that so sorry we're going to flood the world heavily's already gone tie in Hashem wipes out all the descendants of kind it's the amazing thing now let's think about the following ultimately cayenne and hevel are both being punished for thinking that human beings are either equal to animals or just more sophisticated animals why are they punished for such a thing that's their opinion that's what they think that was the conclusion that they came up with with their own mind they're not doing anything wrong are they doing anything wrong no are you telling me that people are responsible not only to choose the correct actions but to formulate the correct opinions and if they don't formulate the correct opinions there are actually repercussions in this world for not having the proper Outlook in life and not just repercussions serious repercussions yeah they say for Akram is telling us that people don't only believe something because that's how they were born or the circumstances in life ultimately you believe what you want to believe no one is coerced no one is forced nobody because of certain circumstances has to formulate any opinion everyone has absolute free choice not only to act but to think and if somebody comes to improper conclusions about attitudes toward animals toward the planet toward events toward history toward anything that are not in line with the way Hashem wants a person to think person's accountable for that and that means a person has to learn not only what to do but what to think person must learn what to think here it's an amazing thing hevel's a great guy what's wrong with Heather hevel's standing there he's bringing his fattest sheep I mean he has maybe a hundred sheep right and this sheep weighs more than any other sheep and it Bears louder and it's his favorite sheep and he offers the Sheep to God and God accepts it but then when Cayenne comes with the sword to kill Heather you don't think God could have protected Heather of course he could have protected heaven but Hashem chose not to you know why because hevel had an improper attitude he didn't understand the divine nature of man that is a powerful us it doesn't matter how much knowledge a man acquired we finished all that though if he didn't go to school yeah but not only to choose between good and bad in Madison a person is responsible to come to the correct conclusion and he's Cayenne in heaven nobody nobody ever came to Cain and Heather and gave them a safe return in heaven you need to know you were created in the image of God nobody told no we don't find they had a nivuah that they're creating an image of God this is something until intuitively instinctively they needed to come to this appreciation that a human being is a Divine creation and because they didn't that's why the Torah makes a very big emphasis that their children were not born neither of them understood they didn't get it but mankind comes up with all these concocted schemes and ideas the person without bias and without prejudice is able to see things and if a person not able to then they need to go learn the first question is who's this woman and ultimately he's punished because he asked who's this woman so can I ask what's wrong with what he did Sigma says it's not that the first thing somebody does when they when they come to say you ask them who the woman is how's he supposed to know that on to learn you should have gone to learn investment says even further in the covets my mother and listen to this well honestly you know someone is not because right okay you know it's rachmanas definitely there is a there's a concept of mitigating circumstances where a person is not able to fully exercise their free will but nevertheless what about somebody you know for whatever reason he's not he's not keeping he's not keeping it starts off like this step number one is every human being is obligated to believe in a god and there's no excuse there's no there's no such thing as you're born under circumstances that you know Tina right you see this cup right if anybody would ever say that uh you know there's a wind came along and reconstituted the chemicals of the this ruggle over here and form the cup right they would be insane everybody knows someone had to make the cup so how could anybody in the right mind say that the world which is infinitely more complex than the cup came by itself so it's a double push it every 13 year old kid is expected to understand that there's a Creator once you know there's a Creator it is also obvious that that Creator told us how to live otherwise you know we're just how are you supposed to know what to do so now to figure out how we're supposed to live now we're obligated to go and learn and it doesn't matter where you grow up it doesn't matter where you are who you are when you are from where you are once you know that there is a Creator who taught this world what we got to do you get out and nobody is off the hook there's no such thing as uh you know mitigating circumstances ultimately there's a responsibility that everybody Bears to to find out the truth and this is a powerful lesson we're learning from the state for Akram we're Italian and heavily are held accountable for improper Outlook toward men and that's step number one because before a person is a good Jew he has to understand what it means to be a human being a human being is a different strata than an animal even things that are more sophisticated animal a human being is in the image of Hashem in fact that's why it says to you you have to be holy and the terrorism I would think you could be as holy as God I'm a limerick you can't be as holy as me that means that I would actually think that a human being can be as holy as a sham Not only would we think that we should have thought that had the Torah not written to color science you know why because we're expected to realize that we have a Divine spark and that Divine spark has so much potential greatness that if not for the fact that God told us we can never be as green as him we should have thought we could be as great so that's one of the lessons we learned from the safer icarim and this is a very important haktama to the entire Tyra that Adam that man is not just a sophisticated animal it's not just a more Progressive animal a human being is a different class human being has created but and until that concept was realized the world was not read the world was not ready to continue and when there was one individual by the name of Chase who understood this God said everybody else we got to clear the way nobody else could could remain because this is a dangerous poisonous poisonous venomous idea why is it here again then have a wonderful evening you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com