Excerpt from Tub Taam: Or a Vindication of the Jewish Mode of Slaughtering Animals for Food Called Shechitah
His letters of credentials from leading Rabbis of Europe secured for him shortly after his arrival in this country the position of supervising some of the largest abbatoirs in New York. He taught many pupils shechitah and his seal was recognized by the Orthodox Jews of New York. In 1866, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, through its President, Mr. Henry Bergh, declared the Jewish method of slaughtering animals to be "cruelty - needlessly inflicted." But Rabbi Friedman's able defense in his treatise "Tub Taam" convinced the Society of the error of their judgment. "Tub Taam" was originally published in Hebrew and testimonials commending the book and indorsing the author's careful treatment of the subject were received from leading rabbis and physicians of Europe and America. In 1876, the book was translated by Prof. Buttenwieser into English, but owing to the illness of the author the translation was never placed on sale.
The Book remains a lasting monument to his reverent love for our ancestral faith and customs; a testimony to his scholarship and an evidence of his zeal for the religion in which he was born, for whose interests he labored faithfully all his life and as a servant of which he yielded up his breath.
Shakespeare tells us that the "Evil which men do lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones"
It is a satisfaction to know that the opposite is likewise true. This little book, long forgotten, rises, as it were, out of oblivion to resurrect and bless the memory of the earnest writer and the careful translator.
It had served its purpose in removing the mistaken, but sincere, opposition of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and preserved for the orthodox Jew the right, so precious to him, of killing the animal according to the prescribed Jewish formula.
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