Devarim 14:11

11 Of all tahorah (clean) birds ye shall eat.

Devarim 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:11

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
] Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides F16 observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.


FOOTNOTES:

F16 Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

Devarim 14:11 In-Context

9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat,
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is tameh (unclean) unto you.
11 Of all tahorah (clean) birds ye shall eat.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the nesher, and the vulture, and the bearded vulture,
13 And the kite, and the buzzard after its kind,
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