What Does The Torah Say About Animal Cruelty? (4 Minutes)
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0:11the law is that if a person kills another person, there's only one penalty. What is it? The death penalty. There's no 20 years in prison; there's no 50 years in prison; there's no 100 years in prison like they're giving this kid who just murdered a bunch of people last week. They're giving him 50 years in prison because he's only 17 or 40 years in prison, and when he's 57, he's gonna be able to go on parole and... 57 years, always gonna be able to go free potentially. Nobody kills him in there before that. But the point is that this is the ludicrous situation. According to the Torah, if you kill, you have to be killed. You have lost your right to live. But the Torah specifies if you kill an animal, it's obviously not the same value, no matter what the organization PETA and the like, and the lefty liberals think. The value of an animal is not like the value of a human being. If you kill a dog, it's not worth your life. If you kill a cat, it's not worth your life. If you kill a monkey, it's not worth your life. If you kill the biggest, smartest lion on the planet, it's not worth your life. What do you have to do? You have to make restitution. You have to pay for it with money, and then...
1:31and then it goes into the law, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and so on and so forth. From here we learn that "eye for eye" doesn't literally mean a physical eye for a physical eye. It literally explains to you that it's monetary compensation. But then, then rabotai, the chidush is this. After we hear "eye for eye", "break for break", "tooth for a tooth", it says again in verse 21, It says one who strikes an animal shall make restitution, and one who strikes a person shall be put to death. I don't understand; you already said this before in verse 17. You said if you strike a person, you kill a person, you have to kill them. And so, you said if you kill an animal, you have to make restitution. Why mention it again a couple of verses later, both of them in the same verse? In verse 21, if you strike an animal, you have to pay restitution. If you strike a person, you put to death. There's nothing that's duplicating in the Torah for no reason; there has to be a reason.
2:51Hira, but the Torah is teaching us mussar. The Torah is teaching us mussar, telling us if the reason why you kill the animal wasn't because you were protecting your own life. The lion wasn't trying to kill you; you were just hunting for fun. If you kill the sheep or the cow or the dog or whatever it is because you're angry and... You don't work on yourself. Just know you're eventually gonna kill a person. The reason why it's mentioned again is because if he kills an animal, he has to pay restitution. Meaning, yes, do teshuvah. That's the restitution. Why? Because if he doesn't do teshuvah, the next thing that's gonna follow is he's gonna kill a person, and for that, he's gonna lose his life. But that he's going to lose his life. First, you lost money and you were given an opportunity to do teshuva. The second time, when it’s a person, you have to— that's it. You've lost your right to live. That's the Torah teaching us mussar, Rabotai. It is a cost to our anger and...
