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

MIXTURES OF MEAT AND MILK 89
sages. The difference in the origin of the law has an im-
portant bearing on the penalty
incurred in its violation.
For a transgression of the Scriptural law the violator is
striped, providing the proper warnings have been given
and accepted, and have proved of no avail in deterring the
offender. For a violation of a rabbinic ordinance the
stripes may not be administered, unless the violation be
out of sheer contempt.
"The Torah has forbidden only meat of clean animals to
be cooked with milk, but the sages have added fowl to the
prohibition. Eggs found in a fowl, when not mature, are
classified as meat. 4 But neither locusts, fish, hide, dry
bones, horns, hoofs, nor blood of any description are considered
meat within the meaning of the law.5 The Torah
also included in its prohibition only the milk of a clean,
living, female animal. While milk of an unclean animal is
prohibited in itself,
to boil such milk with meat will not
constitute a violation of the law of meat and milk mixtures,
and the law transgressed by eating such a mixture will be
simply a law which forbids the use of unclean animals
and that which issues from them. Likewise, milk taken
from an animal after she has been slaughtered is not milk
in the meaning of our law; nor is fluid abnormally ob-
tained from the mammaries of a male called milk. 6
Cook-
ing technically implies the use of a fire, as in boiling or
broiling; but smoking or dipping in natural hot springs
is not considered cooking. 7
Although Scripture has ex-
cepted the above mentioned types of meat, milk, or cook-
ing from the meaning of the law, this does not imply their
4
Y. D. ibid.
here.
3, 5. See various rulings on eggs in commentators,
Huffin 94, 114, Y. D. ibid.
e
Y. D. ibid. 6.
3, 6, 7.
7
Ibid, Maimonides finds fofe ruling in Jerushalmi Nedarim TTT