Why Does HaShem Allow Us To Kill Animals?

0:56There isn't even us. Everything is Hashem. Everything has a piece of Hashem. So for anything to have a piece of life, to be living, to exist in the world, it has to have a piece of Hashem. The higher the creation, the higher the piece. For example, a Jew has the highest level of a piece of Hashem, if you will, whereas a non-Jew has a lesser piece. An animal has a lesser piece, a fruit has a lesser piece, and so on and so forth. Now, that chicken would probably tell you it doesn't want to be slaughtered. But according to halacha, according to Jewish law, there's a mitzvah, a commandment, to eat the chicken if it's kosher and you do a bracha, a blessing. Tell you to slaughter your mother. Don't slaughter me. Slaughter yourself. Where you gonna slaughter me? Where you want? I don't want to be slaughtered. No, but I eat chicken cutlets, schnitzel, once a week, twice a week. Schnitzel your sister. Where you wanna schnitzel me? I want to live. I'm gonna live to 120. So how come HaKadosh Baruch Hu allows you to commit mass murder on chickens every day? Why? Why are you allowed to commit mass murder on chickens? How come you're not going to trial? In fact, it's a mitzvah for you to eat the chicken if it's kosher and you make a blessing.

2:17How come? Because that's what it was created for. That's what it was created for. Now, does that mean that it doesn't hurt the chicken? No, it hurts the chicken. But Hashem knows this and still does it. What do you think, the cow is happy to get slaughtered? Oh, Baruch Haba! You're going to slaughter me? No, come on, come on. No, come on. Right here, right here. Right where the vein is. A cow says, no, come on, come on. No, you can do it. I'm kosher, no cow wants to do it. Does it hurt the cow? Yes, it hurts the cow. Have you ever seen a shechita? Even though you're slaughtering it and the cow dies instantly because it's a kosher slaughter, you're disconnecting the veins so that by the time the blood reaches the brain to signal pain, it has already died. Still, the cow, if you ask the cow, Yes, listen. You want to be kosher; eat kosher cows. Tell your kids, they will be kosher cows. What, cows? Well, I'm good. Let me live. I'm on the grass, I'm eating, I'm drinking, I'm having a good time over here, and I'm minding my business. What do I do to you? You want to murder me? Go eat apples. So Hakadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He) allows it to happen and nonetheless says to us, because that is what was created.

3:43So what? You don't want to eat a cow anymore because you want to avoid inflicting pain on it? Hashem says, don't worry. Even the orange that you want to cut because you're vegetarian also has pain. What? Just because you don't see it and just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it doesn't have pain. What is that meant to teach us? To teach us that pain is part of life. Pain is part of life. Why? Because everything has a purpose. Everything has a purpose. It's worth it for HaKadosh Baruch Hu to have us go through a certain amount of pain because He needs us to go through a certain amount of pain in order for us to grow. I'll give you an example that's more in your language. Every parent that sees their kids struggle wants immediately to save them. You see your kids. Now, I'll ask you a question. Do your parents ever help you with homework? Your parents ever help you with homework? Your parents ever help you with anything? What do they help you with? Okay, but something aside from that, do they give you some money? Pay for your stuff? Okay, what if your parents... Now, let's say one day, you're hungry and you say, Abba, Ima, can you give me $10? I want to go get some kosher food.

5:09Hungry, how come they're gonna give it to you? Why don't they tell you to go work, go make your own money? Which means what? They don't, they feel, they feel that if they tell you to go work, go make your own money, that's a painful thing, and they want to solve your pain because they care about you right now. Parents that help their kids with homework, why? Because they see their kids are struggling. If you could turn on the battery behind the thing and so it doesn't shut off the phone. Please. so it doesn't shut off the phone, please. So parents that see their kids struggling with something immediately want to solve that struggle. They see their kids struggling with homework, struggling with school, struggling with money, and immediately they want to take away their pain. They'll do their homework for them. They'll give them a bunch of money to go buy food. They'll do a lot of things. Why? Because they cannot handle their kids being in pain.

6:15But the truth is, at some point, if they're good parents, they have to let their kids suffer. If they're good parents, not if they're bad parents. If they're good parents, they have to let their kids suffer. They have to let their kids do their own homework and fail if that's what it takes for them to realize they have to study better next time. They have to let their kids struggle and not make ends meet, miss the rent once or twice, and have the landlord bust their chops a few times to know they have to work harder. They have to be more serious about work and not ask you and Abba to bail them out every time. If the parents are good, they have to allow their kids to struggle. They have to watch their kids in pain at some point, not right away, but at some point. Why? Because that's the only way they grow and... Struggle and not make ends meet, miss the rent once or twice, and have the landlord bust their chops a few times. To know they have to work harder, they have to be more serious about work and not ask you and Abba to bail them out every time. If the parents are good, they have to allow their kids to struggle. They have to watch their kids in pain at some point, not right away, but at some point. Why? Because that's the only way you grow and learn resilience. Now that means that the parents have to endure pain because it's painful to see your kids in pain. But you have to do it as a good parent. HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves us much more than our parents love us, much more than we love our kids, and still, He puts us in pain every single day. You walk out of the door, your elbow hits the corner, you're in pain. Why is Hashem allowing you to have pain?

7:38Part of it is repentance for sin, part of it is to teach you to be careful next time you do business with non-kosher people. Hashem eventually ensures that non-kosher people do not take advantage of you, not just take advantage of other people. It teaches you why you endure all that pain and lose all that money that you worked hard for. Why? Hashem allows you to go through it in order for you to learn from it, meaning that in order for Hashem to get us to where He wants us to be, He might allow us to go through challenges so we can grow. where He wants us to be. He must allow us to get hurt, to suffer, because that's the only way we grow. Pain is a very serious part of life, an important part if you understand it. If you think that pain simply makes you a victim, then you don't understand what the meaning of pain is. So everything has a purpose. Pain has a purpose and a very, very important purpose nonetheless. It's a critical purpose. It's actually one of the most important things in creation altogether. No one can ever grow without pain. No one can ever succeed without pain. No one can ever get closer to Hashem without pain. You must have pain in order to connect to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. That's why there's a term called Mesirut Nefesh. Mesirut Nefesh means self-sacrifice. What’s self-sacrifice? The highest form of pain.

9:05The highest form of pain is what HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants. That's why the entire Torah from Bereishit all the way to the end is the experiences of people enduring pain and connecting to Hashem with that pain and through that pain. So we learn that these creatures that we eat have pain because we need to learn that that pain Hashem is aware of it and He wants you to be aware of it so you learn from it that its pain is not a bad word. It's not a negative thing if you understand what it means. It's only a negative thing if you don't understand what it means. If you knew that breaking your hand is going to save you from five years of gehinom for some sin that you did, are you going to still say ouch? Or are you going to say, "Hashem, break the other hand too?" Why? Because now you understand the value of this pain. You understand the value of this pain. If you know that you're losing all your money, You worked hard for, you worked 60 years to have money. You think you're finally going to retire. Somebody shows up and robs you of everything you have in one second. Now, of course, this is traumatizing. If you're like some of the people in the world, they might unfortunately commit suicide. But if you understand the value of pain, you know that Hashem taking all of your money simply took away a large part of your Gehinnom, if not all of it. Because it's like mamash a death penalty.

10:34If you know that this money loss meant Hashem just removed 5,000 years of Gehinnom, what are you going to say to Hashem? "Why didn't you do it sooner? Thank you. I'm going to have a Seuda Hoda'ah, a thank you dinner for Hashem for losing all my money." What's the difference between the guy that cries over losing his money and the guy that thanks Hashem for losing his money? Both of them endured pain. The difference is one understands the value of pain, and the other doesn't understand the value of pain.