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Prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day

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According to the sages, the prohibition against slaughtering a young calf extends from birth to the seventh day of its life (Hullin 78:2). However, Temple Scroll, by linking Lev 22:28 and a paraphrase of Gen 32:12 which contains the phrase ... in the context of Jacob fearing that Esau might strike him together with all of his clan, suggests that
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Ben Zion Wacholder The New Damascus Document: The Midrash On The Eschatological Torah 2007 Page 296 "And an ox or a lamb with its offspring you may not slaughter at the same time. And you shall not strike the mother with her offspring. (11QT 52:5–7a) This text diverges from Talmudic tradition.
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1989 Page 113 "In 22:26f., for example, in a formulation identical to that found here, we read that the offspring of large and small cattle may not be "slaughtered" until the eighth day after birth, at which time they first become acceptable as sacrifices. In keeping
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2007 Page 296 "3.2.2.9.6.2.7. The Status of a Fetus (4Q270 F2ii:15b) As we have stated above, the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal differs from rabbinic tradition which sanctions it. On this ban, see also 11QT 52:5–7a: yl hmh hbowt yk twalm
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2009 - Page 140 "... the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal in what immediately precedes (ii.15), an application of Deut 22:6, as in 11QTa/11Q19 52.5, there, applied to sacrificial slaughter, and similarly in 4QMMTB 36-38, and to 11QTa/11Q19
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1996 - Page 40 "The uniqueness of the Qumran treatment, according to Qimron's restoration, is the association of Lev 22:28 with the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal and the requirement to slaughter a fetus found alive in the womb of its
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1995 "... there is apparently also a prohibition of consuming the young of an animal found alive within the womb of its mother. The young is regarded as a distinct animal requiring its own ritual slaughter.7"
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The commandment is preceded by the instruction that a calf or lamb is only acceptable for sacrifice on the eighth day (22:26). The Hebrew Bible uses the generic word for bull or cow (Hebrew: שור
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argued that while the Biblical prohibition applies only to the mother, a rabbinic decree of lesser stringency also prohibits killing the father with its offspring. The
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rules that it is uncertain whether the father is included, and therefore one must not slaughter the father with its offspring, but if done the punishment (
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And an ox or a lamb with its offspring you may not slaughter at the same time. And you shall not strike the mother with her offspring.
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The interpretation of the Dead Sea scrolls differs from later rabbinical Judaism in prohibiting the slaughter of a pregnant animal.
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Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom
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Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon "Showr ...This is the general word for one of the ox tribe... without distinction of age or sex"
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means “at the same time." In other words it is prohibited to slaughter a fetus when it is in its mother's womb."
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Greek Septuagint Leviticus 22:28 καὶ μόσχον ἢ πρόβατον αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ παιδία αὐτῆς οὐ σφάξεις ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ
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But you shall not slaughter, from the herd or the flock, an animal with its young on the same day.
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The "day" in question is defined as running from evening to evening, similar to
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understood the prohibition to apply to both mother or father of the offspring.
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The earliest Jewish commentary on this commandment is found in the
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argued that the prohibition only applies to the mother; however
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The commandment originates from a verse in the book of
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four-legged animal and its offspring on the same day.
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Halakhic
Torah
Leviticus 22:28
Mishnah
Hullin
Babylonian Talmud
Hullin
Shulchan Aruch
Yoreh De'ah
commandment
Judaism
kosher
Leviticus
Leviticus 22:28
Temple Scroll
Dead Sea scrolls
11QT
Septuagint
Hellenistic Judaism
Obadiah of Bertinoro
Rashi
Hizkuni
Shulchan Aruch
whipping
Shabbat
Nahum M. Sarna
Chaim Potok
Jewish Publication Society
4QMMT
Chullin

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