Moses: And of Asher he said: “May Asher be blessed with sons. He will be pleasing to his brothers, and immerse his foot in oil. Your locks are iron and copper, and the days of your old age will be like the days of your youth. Jeshurun, there is none like God; He Who rides the heavens is at your assistance, and with His majesty, [He rides] the skies, which are the abode for the God Who precedes all, and below, are the mighty ones of the world. He expelled the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’ And Israel dwelled safely and alone as Jacob [blessed them], in a land of grain and wine; also, their heavens will drip dew. Fortunate are you, O Israel! Who is like you, O people whose salvation is through the Lord, the Shield Who helps you, your majestic Sword! Your enemies will lie to you, but you will tread upon their heights.”
Scott Oglesby: An ecletic fusion of pop punk and twinkly emo
Jacob: The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the student of the law from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be a gathering of peoples.
Rabbi Ari Z. Zivotofsky: Rav Yosef Karo, the author of the Shulchan Aruch, says that the custom is to treat the buffalo as a behama -domesticated animal. The Ramo, living in Poland and geographically removed from the source of this halacha, may have been unfamiliar with the water buffalo of Italy. He was equivocal, and wrote that the buffalo is kosher but should be treated as a safek (doubt) and have the stringencies of both a behama and a chaya.
Charles P. Castro: A young carabao being axed prior to butchering as part of the festivities during the Dupax del Sur town fiesta in 2011. Events like this must have occurred by the hundreds in Dupax during the Philippine Revolution since the town used to have plenty of carabaos.
