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Shnayim Yomi - Shemini - Shishi - #6
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Featuring: Rabbi Eliyahu Aboud Sephardic Torah Center of Marine Park Brooklyn, NY Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/shmini6.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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this aliyah is a bit long
it discusses kosher animals
the domestic animals the wild animals
kosher fish swim in the water the kosher
birds that fly
and obviously the insects that
uh creepy crawlies that cool on the
ground
some of them might be might be kosher
the end of the aliyah also talks about
it so let's get a little more detail the
torah begins
to tell the people to eat
speak to the people this is the way this
is the kosher animals that you can eat
call mafresit
the animal has the number one we're
talking here about real animals they
have to be
split hooves
rashi explains that some animals have
half split hooves on the top they're
split but on the bottom they're
connected
that's not good enough it has to be
refreshing split
on the top and split on the bottom as
well split hooves completely
that's condition number one condition
number two
they have to also be chewing that's cut
they're cut that's what we call in
english
where the food it processes the food
twice it goes down comes back up they
process it again
if an animal has these two conditions
kosher to eat
if an animal only has one
not kosher and of course if it has none
and the pasuk actually describes that
there are four animals in the world
which
have one and not the other the first one
is the camel
describes in pasuk
it choose its cut but it doesn't have
split hooves
then it goes on to say shafan okay
chiffon
here there's a discrepancy what the name
of this animal
uh people usually say shafan is the
rabbit it's not a rabbit
the art school gives a word for it they
use the word
hyrax
h-y-r-a-x they say it's not a regular
rabbit a regular rabbit has longer ears
this is a rabbit family but smaller ears
and this chavan basically it again it
chooses cut it does not have the split
hooves tame
the next thing is the arnevit and this
this is a rabbit or
hair article also is not sure the oscar
goes on actually to say
that we don't really know the difference
between these and today
uh we're not exactly sure what these
things are
something from the rabbit family again
it chews its cut does not have split
hopes
and then the famous hazel and this one
is different
that it has split holes but it doesn't
chew its card
the famous pig which is of course a suit
to eat
not only that the rashi points out that
the pig
sits and crouches with its feet split
hooves in front of it
to show off as if it's kosher but really
it's not kosher at all
all other animals not kosher fish
says
what are you allowed to eat from the
water snapir
and scales anything that doesn't happens
in scales
asu has fins and scales
birds the pursuit goes on to say that
now here you have something interesting
there's no shimanine there's no
there's no ways to tell what's culture
what's not
it just goes through by name the
non-kosher animal and it lists
20 non-kosher animals the
the raven the nesha the the eagle
and others another list of 20 names and
everything else kosher so that's great
for us there's
there's many species of birds that are
kosher according to this
but it says that we're not sure exactly
which ones are kosher which ones are not
kosher
and therefore unless you have a
tradition
perfectly that this is kosher like
chicken and duck
things like that you cannot eat it so
most birds were not allowed to eat today
the ones that we know for sure that yes
the pasuk ends off
with shed it's health these are little
little bugs
flies mosquitoes and uh grasshoppers
but there are some that you can which
ones certain species of
grasshoppers
there are certain grasshoppers you're
allowed to eat the pursuit describes
them again here also we don't really
have a great
tradition about what's mutated and
unless you have a good tradition don't
eat them
at the end of the aliyah we end off with
what's called the shratseem the zelech
there are certain bugs which have which
are they're not kosher to eat
but added to not being kosher if you
touch them you also become tame
and you have to dip in the machine and
it lists eight srirachim
it is the famous which is a mishna
in where it describes the holy the
akhbar
again we don't really know exactly what
these are but
if one touches them he becomes tame not
only the president
of not only a human touches them
even a wooden vessel or a baguette or a
sock or
or a sack any cli which touches
these things becomes a man defiled and
they need to go into mcveigh
but they go into a magnet they wait till
evening and then they become tahor
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