Another journey of Carmeli led him to ride an elephant in the Chitwan forest located on the India-Nepal border, where the owner of the elephant instructed him on how to deal with dangerous animals that roam the forest • Watch
Parashat Titzvah: “And shall not die.”
“Do you want not to die?” asked me Rajip, the owner of the elephant on which I rode and with which I entered the Chitwan forest located on the Indo-Nepal border. “So stick to the instructions and get to know the nature and behavior of wild animals in the forest,” warned Regip who equipped me with a map of the forest on which the animals roaming freely were noted.
The instructions were pretty clear what to do when a rhino comes in front of you? And what to do when a tiger appears in front of you? And how to behave in front of a loud-mouthed bear?
What scared me was precisely the domesticated elephant I was riding on.
65 domesticated elephants roam the Chitwan area. They are used by the locals for daily needs. As we know, an elephant that is not treated properly by the close maut, becomes a very dangerous animal.
This week, such an elephant killed an Israeli boy in Chitwan who was apparently walking alone in the dangerous forest.
And in the corner of the halacha: the one who sees an elephant (after 30 days) blesses and commits an act of Genesis.