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Animal strike

שו”תCategory: HalachaAnimal strike
asked 2 years ago

Is a death penalty/sin is required for an animal strike on Shabbat? For example, a person whose donkey took a basketball from the Rabbi to the Rabbi. And does this include an accidental or intentional ruling, and if so, does it apply to the animal or the person?

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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago

The slaughter of an animal is a prohibition, not stoning/cutting/slaughtering, as are the prohibitions of labor.
It seems to me that this includes an accidental law on the part of man, of course, like any other prohibition. On the part of the animal, accidental has no meaning. And does it know that it is taking from the Lord to the Lord? Or is it the Lord and this is the Lord? Or is there such a prohibition? What does accidental have to do with it? Only in torts do we find an intention to harm the animal (the father of the deker), but even there the intention is not intended as in the case of man, but rather in the act that was done in order to harm and not for any other purpose or in the way it was carried out. The intention there is not a parameter of guilt but rather a definition of a deker.

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