Good day! I'm new here, so be kind and patient, please. My wife and I keep quite a few goats, which of course we must milk daily. We were wondering, if anyone knows, on the Sabbath, were the milking animals left off from milking each Sabbath, or was this considered an acceptable type of labor, as well as what is done today? Anyone?
Any one ever had milkers (cattle or goats or whatever else can and will be milked regularily) knows that they must be milked when they must be milked or one will wind up with a very sick or dead animal and that in itself (if you want to be legally Jewish) is a sin in itself because it is not obeying God's Commandment to care for the animals He has given charge into your hands.
Remember what God has also said about saving the life of an animal that is in trouble or danger during Shabbos - help it and or save it from its danger.
Lastly, y'all gotta remember and know that Shabbos is a time of Joy and rejoicing, a time to purposely pull oneself away from the work a day world and draw close into the communion and fellowship with Yeshua our God and bridegroom. God created a sabbath time (in a day, week,month, year ect...) for the benefit of the perosn who will sit with Him and eat and drink and be happy.
My family are kod to shabbos by takng two elements Pesach, the cup and the bread, and we remember how God Himself with us has become our only salvation and made Himself our Kinsman Redeemer and we remember all that He has done and finished in the prayers He prayed and answered in our prayers to Him in "Yes" and "It is Finishsed".
Too many well meaning brothers and sisters are letting the happiness of Shabbes and the Joy one may enjoy in its kod by giving legalities of rabbidic or human laws and rules and rites dictate over their kod of God's ordination. It is sad because no one should be worriing themself sick and tired over how to be kod to the sabbath, when God has talior made it for every living, breathing human being Inside Himself Yeshua our Lord God The ALmighty One!.
Good day! I'm new here, so be kind and patient, please. My wife and I keep quite a few goats, which of course we must milk daily. We were wondering, if anyone knows, on the Sabbath, were the milking animals left off from milking each Sabbath, or was this considered an acceptable type of labor, as well as what is done today? Anyone?
If you want to know from a Jewish Law point of view, then milking a cow/goat on the Sabbath is forbidden. But since they must be milked, otherwise they will suffer, what they do in Israel is to milk the cows and let the milk go to waste. In that way the Torah prohibition is not being transgressed (which it would if you saved the milk for drinking).
I saw in religious kibbutzim that they milk the cows in a different way than normal... (with a shinui as Jews call that), milk doesn't have to go to waste than anyway.
Nowadays some cows are so created that they can give 3 times a day milk, and Israeli cows seem to have the highest amount of liters a cow....
If you don't milk the cow, she realy can more or the less ''explode''. So you must anyway do it.