Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Siman 189

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What does the Kitzur ask of a person in guarding life, property and animals? The Kitzur requires a maakeh on a usable roof and calls leaving any life-threatening hazard a violation of an aseh and a lo saaseh. Needlessly ruining anything useful violates a prohibition, in the Kitzur's words. The Kitzur also forbids castrating a person or animal, and some authorities it cites add selling an animal to a goy known to castrate it.

Key points

• For a wobbling donkey the Kitzur keeps the caravan waiting, but once it falls, only a reasonable time.
• For a pit in a courtyard, the Kitzur calls for a ten-tefach mound or a cover.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Caravan members and a fallen donkey
2. 2:09Shmiras haguf and baal tashchis
3. 2:43The mitzvah of maakeh
4. 6:26Care with money and property
5. 9:52Pain to living creatures
6. 11:36Plucking feathers from live geese
7. 13:34Helping horses on rough terrain
8. 14:42The issur of castration

Topics

• Maakeh
• Baal Tashchis
• Shmiras HaGuf