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Parashat Mot-Kedoshim: When the world was created, the Torah says, all creatures were vegetarians; then the rules changed

Ariel Seri-Levi

Ariel Seri-Levi

When the world was created, the Torah relates, all creatures were vegetarians. God tells Adam and Eve: “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food” (Genesis 1:29). God then refers to animals: “And to all the animals on land, to all the birds of the sky, and to everything that creeps on earth, in which there is the breath of life, [I give] all the green plants for food” (Gen. 1:30).

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