GEN1168 In addition to biblical laws, several events depicted in the Torah underscore how important a person’s treatment of animals is in assessing his character.   When Abraham dispatches his servant (assumed to be Eliezer) to find a suitable wife for Abraham’s son, Isaac, he give him no explicit guidelines, other than that the woman should come from the areas in which Abraham was raised.   Eliezer promptly departs for the city of Nahor with ten camels.   He decides, perhaps along the way, that kindness—to both human beings and animals—is the most appropriate first criterion to look for in a spouse.  TELVOL 2:305