Rabbi Boris Dolin · Congregation Dorshei Emet, Montreal
Where Torah meets the table.
Writing, teaching, and video exploring the deep, often overlooked connections between Jewish tradition and a vegan life — from the Garden of Eden to the Shabbat table.
Latest Writing
Essay
Eden as Origin, Not Exception
Why the Torah’s first dietary vision may be less a curiosity and more a compass — and what it asks of us now.
Holidays
A Vegan Seder Plate, Text by Text
Walking through each item on the ke’arah and what it opens up when reimagined without animal products.
Ethics
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim, Plainly
The rabbinic prohibition on animal suffering isn’t a footnote to Jewish law — it’s load-bearing.
From the tradition
“The righteous person knows the soul of their animal.”
Proverbs 12:10
“God saw all that God had made, and behold, it was very good.”
Genesis 1:31
“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads the grain.”
Deuteronomy 25:4
Bring this teaching to your community
Classes, talks, and Shabbatonim on Judaism and animal ethics for congregations, schools, and havurot.