"Paul Stamler" wrote in message
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cindys wrote in message
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"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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I do not judge others myself. BTW, I myself am Jewish and when I
adopted
my
cat Isis it was a requirement to have her spayed. I was all for it. I
am
still for spaying/neutering. I do not see it as mutilation.

The torah is not open to individual interpretation, and the fact remains
that for a Jew to spay or neuter is a torah transgression. The mitzvos
do
not apply to non-Jews, and therefore the torah would not find it
problematic
for a non-Jew to spay or neuter.

In other words, the equvalent of a "Shabbos goy"? (For those not familiar
with the term, a "Shabbos goy" was a Gentile employed by observant Jews to
mind the store or run the factory on the sabbath, when Jews are not
permitted to work.)
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Not at all. The fact is that all Jews are obligated to observe shabbos, but
no one is obligated to adopt an animal.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.