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Leviticus 11: Go Birds!
Chapter 11 discusses what makes animals kosher. Land animals need to chew their cud and have split hooves. The Torah then gives examples of which animals do one but not the other- camels, pigs, and rabbits. For fish, scales and fins are required. The Torah does not give examples of fish that are not kosher. Creepy crawling animals and bugs are forbidden in their entirety except for certain grasshoppers. Then comes birds. For birds the Torah does not list certain features, it simply lists 24 different birds. The complicated part of this list is deciphering which birds are mentioned. Many of…
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