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\"\"<\/a>For some reason today, I thought about Zlateh the Goat<\/i>, a beautiful story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Of this book, including the story of Zlateh, the New York Times<\/i> says, \u201cbeautiful stories for children, written by a master.” But they are not just for children. This is a powerful story of love and compassion and communication at the most profound level between species, different animals, human and goat.<\/p>\n

Zlateh the Goat<\/i>\u00a0struggles with the challenges of reality as does another child\u2019s story, \u201cCarp in the Bathtub\u201d\u00a0by Barbara Cohen, a story in which two young children\u00a0\u201clearn some very grownup lessons when they try to save the fish their mother bought to make into gefilte fish\u201d for the Passover Seder. \u00a0One writer calls the story \u201can early lesson in mortality and heartbreak<\/a>.\u201d The kidnapped fish ultimately ends up where it is destined to be, fulfilling its purpose on the Seder table. The children\u2019s father teaches them a lesson about the purpose of each life on earth, and the youngsters receive a \u201creal\u201d pet, a cat, after Passover.<\/p>\n

Many of us, myself included, experienced the lessons of both books consciously or unconsciously at some time in our lives. We learned that animals are living beings with souls and compassion and an ability to communicate \u2014 and we learned that in our culture, they have a purpose, which is to entertain us or to end up on our plates or in our clothing.<\/p>\n

But as we get older and explore the realities of life and death on factory farms and question the messages of culture, some of us wonder: Can any creature possibly be born with its purpose to be systematically slaughtered after a short, constricted and unnatural life separated from its home, family, friends and natural habitat? The answer of \u201cCarp in the Bathtub\u201d isn\u2019t sufficient for our world today just as the message of kashrut<\/i> is only the beginning of an answer left for us to update for this moment in which we live.<\/p>\n

One lesson the Torah teaches is that but for the grace of G-d and not our own merits, we too could be prey. Perhaps it\u2019s time to remember and reimagine our place in creation along the lines of the first chapters of Genesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason today, I thought about Zlateh the Goat, a beautiful story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Of this book, including the story of Zlateh, the New York Times says, \u201cbeautiful stories for children, written by a master.” But they are not <\/p>\n

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