Cohn, Jacob. The Royal Table - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web

BASES OF THE DIETARY LAWS 15
I. Animal foods:
1. Unclean animals, fowl, fish, and creeping things
named in the Torah (Ex. XX; Lev. XI; Deut.
XIV).
2. Clean animals which died of themselves or were
not ritually slaughtered (Ex. XXII; Deut XIV).
3. Ritually killed animals unfit for use because of
certain diseases which render them trefah (Ex.
ibid.; Deut. ibid.).
4. Limb torn from an animal while still alive (Gen.
IX).
5. The sinew of Jacob (Gen. XXXII).
6. Certain kinds of fat called cheleb (Lev. Ill;
Lev. VII).
7. Blood (Lev. Ill, VII; XVII; Deut XII).
8. Meat and milk mixtures (Ex. XXIII; XXXIV;
Deut. XIV).
II. Vegetable foods:
1. Crossbred vines and grains (Deut. XXII).
2. First three years of fruit, of a tree (Lev. XIX).
3. New grain
XXII).
before the omer is brought (Lev.
4. Untithed produce (Numbers XVIII; Deut. XIV;
Deut. XXVI).
5. The dough-portion (Num. XV).
III. Gentile foods:
1. Wines (Talmud Babli, Avodah Zarah).
2. Bread, milk, and other products (ibid.)-
A small sub-class might be added which strictly speaking
belongs to both Group One and Two: