Hear the case out loud.
The case is Judaism's own, and these three teachers make it in public. Asa Keisar, an Orthodox scholar who gathered many of its sources, teaches in Hebrew. Rabbi David Rosen, a former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and Rabbi Akiva Gersh teach in English, in short talks published by Jewish Vegan Life.
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Asa Keisar
All in Hebrew: in Israel this argument is made in public, and it is made best by people who have to make it in front of someone who disagrees. One has English subtitles built into the picture; the other has only the captions YouTube generates, and its byline says so. His section in step five, the need.
The lecture every Jew should see
Asa Keisar · 72 min · Hebrew, English subtitles on the picture
What is in it
The longest version, and the fullest on sacrifice: roughly fifteen minutes, from 54:00, on the Rambam's account of why sacrifice was commanded at all, with the prophets he reads behind it. Read it beside the Ramban, who answered the Rambam on exactly this; the lecture does not give that side. It also makes claims this site does not repeat: that Vayikra 22:27 bans separating a calf, when the verse fixes when an animal may be offered; and that the Torah conceded defeat to human nature. No authority has ruled on buying meat, milk and eggs, and none needs to: the prohibitions are already in the Torah.
Asa Keisar · Embedded from the speaker's own channel, which asks to be shared · watch on YouTube
The world this morning, Channel 2
Asa Keisar · 5:52 · Hebrew, automatic subtitles
What is in it
Five minutes on a morning show, in Hebrew, with two presenters who interrupt. It is the shortest version of this case anywhere, and the one made to people who did not come looking for it. It covers what kind of permission this is, why the sources are older than the last century, and what the Alshich said to the claim that eating an animal raises it.
Channel 2 (Israel), HaOlam HaBoker · Broadcast by Channel 2 and posted to the speaker's own channel. Embedded from there, never copied: this site does not host the file. · watch on YouTube
Rabbi David Rosen
One short talk in English. Its closing argument, about what calling factory-farmed meat kosher teaches people about the Torah, goes with what a kosher certificate covers, in the facts chapter.
What Balaam’s donkey teaches us
Rabbi David Rosen · 9:35 · English
What is in it
A short talk on the Torah reading of Balak by a former Chief Rabbi of Ireland. Jewish Vegan Life also posted its closing argument, from 8:17, as a reel. In the talk he still allows meat from humane farms.
Jewish Vegan Life · Embedded from the publisher's own channel, never copied: this site does not host the file. · watch on YouTube
Rabbi Akiva Gersh
A short talk in English on why the Torah's first diet had no animals in it, and why meat was allowed after the Flood.
The original diet
Rabbi Akiva Gersh · 6:51 · English
What is in it
Seven minutes in English on a question step two takes up: why the Torah gives people plants to eat, then allows meat after the Flood. The Rabbi Melamed passage he reads is a different one from the one this site cites.
Jewish Vegan Life · Embedded from the publisher's own channel, never copied: this site does not host the file. · watch on YouTube