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Are we allowed to slaughter an animal on the Festival?[ If so, are we permitted to cover the blood? What if we prepare the pile of earth in advance, with this purpose in mind? What are the differences if we are in a home (with dirt floors, of course) or on a field? Is an act of destruction, digging a hole, always prohibited on Shabbat and Festivals? What if that act of destruction is done to allow the performance of a positive mitzvah of covering (blood)?
Again we are faced with the difficult task of measuring intention against action. We explore the halachot of this ritual and end with a story from the Shoah of a Torah buried in the ground except for four panels and the strange journey they took through the hell of Auschwitz…