Animals (621)
Chapter 27
Laws Relating to Animals on Shabbath and Yom Tov
LEADING AN ANIMAL OR ALLOWING IT TO PERFORM A FORBIDDEN ACTIVITY
6.a. There is nothing wrong with an animal’s performing a forbidden activity for its own benefit.
6.b. One is, thus, allowed to put an animal out to pasture on Shabbath, with the intention that it should pull up and eat grass growing from the ground, in spite of the fact that pulling up grass growing from the ground is a forbidden activity.
6.c. Were this not so, Shabbath would be a day of suffering for the animal, and not a day of rest as prescribed by the Torah.
6.d. When putting an animal out to graze, one should not do so with the intention of improving the land.
The halachot are taken from the book 'Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchatha - English Edition' under the authority of the Feldheim Publishers. All rights are reserved for the heirs of the author, the late Rabbi Y. Neuwirth ZT"L, and for Feldheim Publishers. Copying or distribution for commercial purposes is prohibited; distribution for the benefit of the public is allowed, without any compensation.
“Shabbos is capable of having mercy upon us, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu will gather us from our exile. And were Yisrael to observe two Shabbasos properly, they would immediately be redeemed” (Zohar Chadas, Vayeshev)
