If one chances upon a mother bird roosting on her eggs or her nestlings, and one wants to take the eggs or the nestlings, one has a Mitzva to first send away the mother bird.
The correct way to do this Mitzva is to pick up the bird and shoo her away.
If she returns and hovers over the nest before you take the eggs or nestlings, you have to send her away again and again - no matter how often she returns.
Only applies to Kosher birds that don't belong to anybody, eggs that are not yet fertilized and nestlings that cannot fly yet
Applies to everybody, everywhere, always
Verse: "You shall send away the mother bird, and take the offspring" (Devarim 22:7)
Source: The Chafetz-Chaim's Sefer haMitzvot haKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 74
- Danny
Wednesday, 7 Tishrei 5771
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