Encouraging consumption in non-kosher vegan restaurants – appropriate?
To the honor of dear Rabbi Michael, peace be upon you!
A. Eating profane meat in the Torah is considered “Zevicha” – “sacrifice.” A person must eat for the sake of God. Eating is not an act that is disconnected from some normative system. As part of this system, there are laws of kashrut.
on. Isaiah criticizes the sacrifices that are offered while sinners commit moral sins, and the Khuzarite criticizes the observance of Shemaic commandments without the intellectual commandments.
third. The rabbi writes that it is not certain that the entire Torah was given from Sinai. Doesn’t this mean that there can be logical precedence for a custom determined from a human normative system over the versed law?
The question –
In the Rabbi’s opinion, if restricting consumption from vegan restaurants that do not test their products and do not have a kosher certificate causes a national moral injustice on the level of animal abuse, is it appropriate to follow meta-halachic principles, which teach to abolish the “sacrifice” in kashrut laws in favor of the moral correction of strengthening veganism, and to instruct that kosher is not required in a vegan restaurant at all, until the national moral situation is corrected, so that the religious will take care of kosher vegan restaurants? (And it seems to me that the situation today is indeed disgraceful with regard to kosher vegan restaurants compared to those without kosher.)
Many thanks!
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It is not the requirement of kashrut from restaurants that causes abuse, but the requirement not to eat in vegan restaurants (which are hardly ever kosher).
The connection between the parts of the question is, of course, that we miss the essence of the need for proper eating. For example, “You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk” is a prohibition that in my opinion (I think it is the opinion of Rabbi Kook) instructs not to be cruel. “You have murdered and also inherited” both killing the kid and taking the milk that should have been intended for it. But if this is the essence of kashrut – mercy for animals – then it seems to me that it is ridiculous to maintain kashrut and therefore avoid the market of vegan restaurants.
Of course, the kashrut requirement does not do this, and I did not write it either. But the fact that they do not meet the kashrut requirement makes it impossible to eat at their place. And there is no reason to give them up for the sake of the animals. Restrain yourself and do not eat at the restaurant or look for kosher.
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