Checked out your site and photos with Pia and you both look very healthy indeed. You’ll be glad you lived this way a few score years from now. — Baruch Ben-Zev

Best of luck with your blogging endeavors!

No, I’m suggesting that whomever wrote down what you think is the voice of HaShem on this issue, felt subconsciously that meat was nutritionally necessary to a nomadic tribe to “be fruitful and multiply”, especially when it came to the priests of the tribe. It contradicts the insight, though, in B’rayshiyt 1:29.

But several other points. The Kohanim were supposed to be extraordinary fellows, not like the run of the mill Son of Adam, and they had the duty of taking on the Sin and Guilt offerings, so their diet was not typical. But how interesting that the association is made between meat, and Sin and Guilt, an excellent association. So it is recognized here that eating meat is associated with very negative ideas, not healthy and fruitful ones. So your “eating meat is the most holy action a man can do bringing him closer to his Merciful Father” argument is blown out of the water. The Merciful Father actually gave us a hinged thumb, the only one of the apes to be so blessed, just so we could institute this Mercy by not killing animals, and thus bringing G-ds instruction to Adam to a final realization. You meat eaters are getting in the way of this.

We are also commanded not to kill, and obviously, to slaughter an animal when you have plenty of other food sources, and nutritional science to boot backing you up, such slaughtering is killing.

These arguments are so puerile and logical, I’m surprised you don’t see them. — Baruch Ben-Zev