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Let's hope that this happens very very soon!
Why
is there a commandment in the Torah to send away a mother bird before taking
her fledglings or eggs?
These
are my understandings:
(A)
On the basic level, it's an act of compassion for the mother bird not to expose
her to the sight of her fledglings or eggs being taken. We live in a world
where people still eat meat (whether we should or not at this particular stage
in history is questionable). Regardless of the amazing spiritual elevations
created through eating meat, there's still something tragic about ruining the
life of a creature to do it. Therefore, when we do it in the most compassionate
possible way, as in Judaism's method of ritual slaughter or sending a mother
bird away from her nest, we are demonstrating our reluctance to participate of
an act that pains another creature and our hopes that ultimately we won't have
to seek our nutrition through means that require resorting to such an
act.
(B)
I have heard quoted from the Zohar that as compassionate as the act is to spare
the mother bird from the sight of her offspring being taken, she still cries
bitterly over the separation from them. Her cries ascend to heaven and the Creator
is reminded about His own separation from His first born children scattered like dust throughout the Diaspora. This arouses His compassion to work on gathering the Jewish People and bring them home - to the Holy Land.
Let's hope that this happens very very soon!
Shavuah
Tov :)
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