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

90 THE ROYAL TABLE
practical permissibility. For example, blood or horns may
not be cooked with milk. Yet the penalty incurred by
eating the mixture or preparing it is not the usual penalty
of stripes, because blood and horns are Scripturally not
"meat," and the prohibition of their use is only rabbinical.
Freshly drunk milk, still uncoagulated,
stomach and salted therein,
found in a calf's
or allowed to remain thus for
twenty-four hours of continuous contact, may not be used
in curdling cheese, for twenty-four hours of continuous
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contact of meat and milk amounts to cooking them together.
If the milk be used the cheese may not be eaten unless it
contains sixty times the volume of the curdling
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agent.
Coagulated milk found in the stomach is not milk but
excrement, and does not make cheese inedible. 10 Some
use the actual skin of the calf's stomach as the curdling
agent, in which case the skin must be annulled by sixty
volumes of cheese before the cheese is rendered edible.
This rule applies only to the skin of a kosher calf's stomach.
Where a trejah animal provides the stomach no volume
of cheese can annul the forbidden skin and the cheese is
in all cases unfit for use. 11
Some usage is forbidden not because of legal dictation,
but lest someone unfamiliar with the facts draw false con-
clusions from his observation and either unwittingly turn
Into a violator of the law, or slander the one whose actions
he observes as a sinner. To illustrate, a woman's milk may
be drunk when it is collected in a glass. It is only for-
bidden to suckle a woman's breast because of the inherent
abomination. Yet meat may not be cooked in woman's
milk, though
it is not "milk" within the definition of the
8 Y D 87, 10.
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Y. D. ibid.
10
Ibid. See Mordecai to Kol Eabasar.
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Ibid. Avodah Zarah 35a, and Ran and Rashba ad loc.