Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz Quotes

Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz was a rabbi and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yekar. He served as the Rabbi of Prague from 1604-1619. Wikipedia

✵ 1550 – 21. April 1619

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Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz Quotes

“What was the necessity for the entire procedure of ritual slaughter? For the sake of self discipline. It is far more appropriate for man not to eat meat; only if he has a strong desire for meat does the Torah permit it, and even this only after the trouble and inconvenience necessary to satisfy his desire. Perhaps because of the bother and annoyance of the whole procedure, he will be restrained from such a strong and uncontrollable desire for meat.”

Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz book Keli Yekar

Keli Yekar, quoted in Abraham Chill, The Mitzvot: The Commandments and Their Rationale (New York: Bloch, 1974), p. 400; as quoted in Richard H. Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books, 2001), p. 11 https://books.google.it/books?id=zo5TqKQVcEgC&pg=PA11.