The Opinion of the Torah: Illuminating the Present Jewish Condition According to the Light of the Torah
Elhanan Wasserman
1936
Written on the Occasion of the Ritual Slaughter Decree in Poland, 1936 [Parliament considered a bill to have animals killed by electricity, rather than by a knife, as required by Jewish law. The bill was never adopted.]
1. It is customary that when things go well a person finds the reason for this in himself. His wisdom, his energy—“My power and the…
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