Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

There were people that were there at the time that saw this tragedy unfold in front of their eyes.

But after they decided to keep the leopard alive and to keep the leopard in the zoo, so an interesting halakhic shayla came up that relates to actually this past week's parasha.

and that is that a sharan niskal is asr bahana.

When you have an animal that kills a human being, that animal becomes asr bahana.

So in the world of halakha, this became a topic of conversation.

Is one allowed to go visit the biblical zoo and see the leopards, considering that one of those leopards is the one

that killed a person.

So the assumption of all of this is that there is some sort of Isser Hana'a on a Sharan Iskall, on an animal that kills a human being.

And the Gemara of Darshans is from the Pesachim.

The Gemara of Pesachim tells us about a Sharan Iskall where it says, and the Bryce of Darshans that it's Asering even if it's Shechted after the Gemara Din.

And how do I know that it's Asering?

Just like a person who's

who has no possessions.

It's considered to be naki min chassav, that he's cleaned out of all his possessions.

So a person is not allowed to get any hana'a from this shard because it's asr ba'ana'a.

So there are really two parts to this question.

Part number one to this question is, does it even count as hana'a when you go to the zoo and look at an animal?

Is looking at something considered hana'a?

Eating something is hana'a, you know, other types of benefit, monetary benefit is considered hana'a, is looking at something considered to be hana'a.

Then the second part to the question, or really I guess what would have been the first part of the question is, is this animal in fact isur-e-hana'a?