Many Yidden, especially in Eretz Yisrael, work in places that cannot close down on Shabbos. How about farms? Cows need to be fed and milked daily. Is there a way to work on Shabbos without desecrating this holy day? I spoke to a farmer and the director of the Institute for Science and Halachah.
To find out about Shabbos on the farmyard we spoke to Mr. Shammai Tzur the dairy farm manager at the religious kibbutz Chafetz Chaim in the center of Israel.
MJ: Mr. Tzur can you describe a typical day in the life of a dairy farmer?
ST: My day starts early. I rise at 3:00 a.m. (!) and make my way to the cowsheds. We start to get things ready for the milking process which begins at 4:00 a.m.. Our machines are equipped to milk twenty-eight cows at a time. It takes around three hours to milk the 300 cows on our farm.
MJ: How many times a day do you milk the cows?
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