Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Quotes

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Man's carnivorous nature is not taken for granted or praised in the fundamental teachings of Judaism. The rabbis of the Talmud told that men were vegetarians in earliest times, between Creation and the generation of Noah... Judaism as a religion offers the option of eating animal flesh, and most Jews do, but in our own country... a whole galaxy of central rabbinic and spiritual leaders... has been affirming vegetarianism as the ultimate meaning of Jewish moral teaching. They have been proclaiming the autonomy of all living creatures as the value which our religious tradition must now teach to all of its believers...

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

Jews will move increasingly to vegetarianism out of their own deepening knowledge of what their tradition commands as they understand it in this age.

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog