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1176-1178(b)Rambam

 

Fragment from the book Rambam. Mishneh Torah. Ma'akhalot Assurot (1176-1178). The treatise Mishneh Torah – legal code, work of Jewish law, its part Ma'akhalot Assurot (Laws of Forbidden Foods) was written between about 1176-1178 years in Egypt (sefaria.org). The author writes about the localization of ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF, גיד) and distinguishes it from a tendon, blood vessel or nerve. See our commentary at the link: 1176-1178(b)Rambam [Rus].

Quote

[Heb]

Mishneh Torah. Ma'akhalot Assurot, 8.1

(original source: sefaria.org)

Translation

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[Eng]

Mishneh Torah. Forbidden Foods, 8.1

[The prohibition against partaking of] the gid hanesheh applies with regard to kosher domesticated animals and wild beasts, even nevelot and trefot. It applies to a fetus and to animals that have been consecrated, both those consecrated [for sacrifices] of which we partake and for sacrifices of which we do not partake. It applies to [the gid] on the right thigh and that on the left thigh. According to Scriptural Law, only [the gid] on the hip socket is forbidden, as [Genesis 32:33] states: "which is on the hip-socket." The remainder of the gid which is above the socket or below the socket - and similarly, the fat which is on the gid - are forbidden only according to Rabbinic decree. There are two giddim. The inner one next to the bone is forbidden according to Scriptural Law. The entire outer one is forbidden by Rabbinic decree. (trans. E. Touger; original source: sefaria.org)

[Deu]

Mischne Tora. Die Verbotenen Speisen

Spannader, unbekanntes Fleisch, Verbot der Nutznießung, 8.1

Das Verbot des Genusses der Spannader findet bei reinem Vieh und Tiere statt, selbst wenn sie als Gefallenes oder Zerrissenes betrachtet werden; ebenso beim Fetus, und bei Tieren, die zum Opfer geheiligt wurden, wobei es sich gleich bleibt, ob es Opfer sind, die gegessen werden können oder nicht, ebenfalls bleibt es sich gleich, ob es die Spannader des rechten oder linken Schenkels ist; — nach der Schrift aber sind nur diejenigen Adern verboten, die auf dem Becken liegen, denn es heißt (Gen. 32:33): »Die auf dem Kopfe des Hüftknochens«; das Übrige von der Spannader, so über, wie unter dem Becken, wie auch das Fett, das sich um diese Ader befindet, ist nur laut Vorschrift der Rabbinen verboten. Übrigens gibt es zwei Spannadern, das Verbot der Schrift nun bezieht sich nur auf die innere, die dem Knochen naheliegt, das Verbot der äußern rührt ganz von den Schriftgelehrten her. (trans. L. Mandelstamm (1851); original source: talmud.de)


Mishneh Torah, copied in Spain, illuminated in Perugia, c. 1400; 
original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, fragment, color correction).


External links

Rambam. Mishneh Torah. Ma'akhalot Assurot. Egypt, 1176-1978. [sefaria.org]

Maimonides M (Mosche ben Maimon). Mischne Tora. Die Verbotenen Speisen. Deutsche übersetzt von Leon Mandelstamm. St. Petersburg, 1851. [talmud.de , sefaria.org]

Rambam. Mishneh Torah. trans. Elyahu Touger. Jerusalem: Moznaim Pub., 1986-2007. [sefaria.org]

Authors & Affiliations

Rambam (Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides) was a physician, rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, Torah commentator, talmudist. He lived between about 1135/1138-1204 years in southern Spain (Cordova), Morocco (Fez), Palestine and Egypt (Alexandria, Fustat, Cairo). [jewishencyclopedia.com , wikipedia.org]


Moses Maimonides
Blaisio U.
 Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum, pp.19-20 (ca. 1744); 
original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, fragment, color correction).


Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, damage, anatomy, animals, Bible, Torah, synonym

                                                                     

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