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21-24)  Cow Tears  This week's Torah portion says that for an
animal to be acceptable as a sacrifice it had to be with its
mother for at least the first seven days (Leviticus 22:27).  I
remember visiting a milk farm in Israel in the Spring. It was
calving season.  Calving season is the time when mommy cows have
baby cows (calves to be precise). However, rather than let the
new born calves suckle from their mother (as some may have
learned in National Geographic), the farm hands were feeding the
little calves milk from baby bottles - it was very cute.  But it
did seem rather surreal to see a calf, like a human baby, suckle
on a baby bottle. I mean what do the calves do in the wild if
they can't find a bottle?  So we asked, "Why not let the calves
suckle from their mothers?"  It would just seem to save an awful
lot of time and effort. Those calves looked really heavy, and, I
don't know, ca