Rivkah
Imeinu gave Eliezer to drink BEFORE the camels. We know, asks the Sefer
Chasidim, that we are obligated to feed our animals before we sit down
to eat ourselves....
The Sefer Chasidim rules, that in giving to drink, humans are first. This is brought down in the Magen Avroham....
The Chasam Sofer and Reb Moshe Feinstein z'l have a different explanation.....
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We are obligated to feed animals prior to ourselves, but are we obligated to feed animals prior to feeding other (not oneself) hungry human beings or are we obligated to feed another hungry human before an animal?
ReplyDeleteBut that won't explain, why Eliezer's animals got to eat first, once they came inside....(assuming of course, that it was done "AL pi din" in the house of Besuel).
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