Mitzvah #129 - Eating animals that were wounded

Any animal or fowl that is considered Taref - torn - may not be eaten, even if it was slaughtered properly. This includes:

• Animals with wounds that would prevent them from living another 12 months
• Animals with punctured internal organs
• Animals with missing vital organs
• Animals which fell and can no longer walk
• Animals with certain limbs broken 

One who eats a Treifa - animal or fowl - deserves 39 lashes by Bet Din.

Applies to everybody, everywhere, always

Verse: "And torn meat in the field do not eat" (Shemot 22:30)

 

Source: The Chafetz-Chaim's Sefer haMitzvot haKatzar; Prohibition 87

 

Chodesh Tov

 

- Danny
Wednesday, 1st Day Rosh Chodesh Iyar 5770, 15th day of the Omer