200Mekilta de-Rabbi Yishmael

Fragments from the book Mekilta de-Rabbi Yishmael (ca. 200). Tractate was written in Israel. It interprets about a quarter of the chapters in Exodus. The passage we have chosen mentions the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) of the animal. See our commentary at the link: 200Mekilta de-Rabbi Yishmael [Rus].

Quote 1.

[Heb]

Tractate Kaspa. 5:19

(original source: sefaria.org)

Quote 2.

[Heb]

Tractate Kaspa. 5:20

(original source: sefaria.org)

Translation

Quote 1.

[Eng]

Tractate Kaspa. 5:19

R. Akiva says: It need not be written (that eating meat and milk is forbidden), for it follows a fortiori, viz.: If the thigh sinew (gid hanasheh), which is not forbidden to be cooked, is forbidden to be eaten, then meat and milk, which is forbidden to be cooked, how much more so should it be forbidden to be eaten! (Transl. by Rabbi_Shraga_Silverstein; original source: sefaria.org)

Quote 2.

[Eng]

Tractate Kaspa. 5:20

No, this may by true of the thigh sinew, which was forbidden before the giving of the Torah, wherefore it is forbidden to be eaten, as opposed to meat and milk, which was not forbidden before the giving of the Torah, wherefore it should not be forbidden to be eaten. (Transl. by Rabbi_Shraga_Silverstein; original source: sefaria.org)

External links

Mekilta de-Rabbi Yishmael. ca. 200. [sefaria.org , jewishencyclopedia.com]

Authors & Affiliations

Yishmael ben Elisha is supposed to have laid the foundation for the Mekhilta, later called Mekilta de-Rabbi Yishmael: «composed an explanatory midrash to the last four books of the Pentateuch». [jewishencyclopedia.com , wikipedia.org] 

Rabbi Yishmael (Yishmael ben Elisha Nachmani, ca. 110 – ca. 135) was a rabbi, scholar, lived in Palestine. [sefaria.org , wikipedia.org , jewishencyclopedia.com].

Keywords

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

                                                                     

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