Does wearing tefillin constitute animal abuse?
by Rabbi Shlomo Chein addthis_pub = ‘rabbisimcha’; –> function gomprint(Hierarchy, ixObject){ var vwidth = 680; var vheight = 520; var url = ‘/en/article_print.html?h=’ + Hierarchy + ‘&o=’ + ixObject; window.open(url,’print’,’toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=’+vwidth+’,height=’+vheight+’,top=’+((window.screen.height/2)-(vheight/2))+’,left=’+((window.screen.width/2)-(vwidth/2))); } Library » Mitzvot » Tefillin | Subscribe | What is RSS? PRINT EMAIL COMMENT To the naked eye and uneducated mind an operating room is a barbaric torture chamber. To those who know that life itself is the human’s number one priority, and that amputating a leg can save life, the operating room is a miracle haven, a chamber of extraordinary kindness. In a world which happened by accident, where due to a cosmic stroke of luck there are many trillions of individual particles floating through space, making a box out of animal skin would indeed be cruel. A