Are the cows used to make leather for Tefillin killed humanely? I don't want to pray with something bound to me when that something was made from an inhumanely killed animal.
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1Related: http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/34811/leather-and-vegetarianism-according-to-rav-kook – Yishai Nov 06 '14 at 22:59
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1I believe they are killed humanely, but I can't prove it to you since I don't know for certain. I've edited your question for the spelling, if I've done anything you don't like you can [edit] yourself to fix it. – MTL Nov 06 '14 at 23:01
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1I've closed this question because it doesn't specify a standard for humaneness. – msh210 Nov 06 '14 at 23:30
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1@mordcah. I think you raise an excellent question. This was discussed at the following web site: http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/praying_with_compassion_time_for_vegan_tefillin_20120624/ – JJLL Nov 07 '14 at 01:01
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1We can't judge "humane" as that's not an objective standard, but if you were to [edit] this to ask instead how the cows are killed, that would be answerable and then you could evaluate the humanity of that yourself. (Edit: but, I later discovered, it would be a duplicate. I've reclosed this as a dupe.) – Monica Cellio Nov 07 '14 at 02:08
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There are no requirements for the leather other than its coming from a kosher mammal. The cow could have been lethally injected or flayed alive. You'd have to contact your local Tefillin Manufacturer to see what he uses. – Double AA Nov 07 '14 at 04:30
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@MonicaCellio if it were so edited, I don't think it'd be a duplicate: the other question asks the halacha (how can they be killed?) whereas this would ask the facts (how are they killed?). DoubleAA says one would need to ask a manufacturer the latter, but there may actually be a standard operating procedure. – msh210 Nov 09 '14 at 05:31
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@msh210 that's a good point, and now that you point it out I agree that that wouldn't be a dupe. – Monica Cellio Nov 09 '14 at 06:24