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The Talmud also offers signs for determining whether a bird is kosher or not. If a bird kills other animals to get its food, eats meat, or is a dangerous bird, then is not kosher, a predatory bird is unfit to eat, raptors like the eagles, hawks, owls and other hunting birds are not kosher, vultures and other carrion-eating birds are not kosher ...
The Talmud [9] cites three opinions regarding the identity of the koy: . It is a type of wild deer (Hebrew: איל הבר) (identified by some as the mouflon [10]).; The Talmud brings down that some say it is a hybrid of a male goat (Hebrew: תיש) and a female gazelle (Hebrew: צביה).
Land-dwelling mammals possessing only one of the two characteristics of kosher land-dwellers, such as the camel [12] who ruminates but has no cloven hooves or the pig who possesses cloven hooves but does not ruminate, are not kosher. These two animals are cited explicitly. Given these conditions, there is no kosher land-dwelling non-mammal.
Nikkur (Hebrew: ניקור) is the process of making an animal kosher by removing chelev (forbidden fats) and the gid hanasheh (sciatic nerve). [1] The basis for this practice is Leviticus 7:23, "You shall not eat of any fatty suet, whether from cattle, sheep, or goats."
Thus, an animal could only be considered a terefah while alive; once it dies of its terefah wound it would be considered a nevelah. An important consequence is that a terefah which dies by shechita, while not fit for kosher consumption, does not have the status and rules of nevelah (e.g. with regard to imparting ritual impurity). [citation needed]
The animal may not be stunned prior to the procedure, [citation needed] as is common practice in non-kosher modern animal slaughter since the early 20th century. It is forbidden to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day. [34] An animal's "young" is defined as either its own offspring, or another animal that follows it around.
In the Hanafi school, one of the four Sunni schools, only "fish" (as opposed to all "sea game") are permissible, including eel, croaker and hagfish.. Any other sea (or water) creatures which are not fish, therefore, are also makruh tahrimi (forbidden but not as the same level as haram) whether they breathe oxygen from water through gills (such as prawns, lobsters and crabs, which are ...
Magen Tzedek, originally known as Hekhsher Tzedek, (Hebrew: מגן צדק English translation Shield of Justice or Justice Certification, with variant English spellings) is a complementary certification for kosher food produced in the United States in a way that meets Jewish Halakhic (legal) standards for workers, consumers, animals, and the environment, as understood by Conservative Judaism.