DYING PIGS - TAKE OUT THE
TRUMPETS
וכי תבואו מלחמה -- והרעתם בחצצרת (במדבר י: ט)
מצות עשה מן התורה לזעוק ולהריע
בחצוצרות על כל צרה (רמבם הל' תעניות א:א)
ואם היה דבר בחזירים מתענין מפני שמעיהם דומים לשל בני אדם (שו"ע או"ח תקעה :ג)
The Rambam & Shulchan Aruch
write there is a Mitzvah to blow
trumpets for every צרה not
only מלחמה.
The Shulchan Aruch lists all
the צרות where fasting and blowing
trumpets are required.
One of them is when there is
an animal plague and the pigs die.
The reason for it is, human
stomachs are similar to pig stomachs.
The (מגן אברהם (ס' תקעו
asks he doesn't understand why we don't
use trumpets today which is
more important than fasting*.
*Trumpets is דאורייתא
fasting is only דרבנן- see Rambam
The Pri Megadim,
Ya'avetz, Chida, Shu"t Mishna Halachos & Shu"t Lehoros Noson
all try to come up with
a reason why we don't do it today..
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