Wednesday, November 20, 2019

halacha - Are mouse-deer kosher?


Mouse-deer do chew cud (they has four stomachs), but have not two, but four hoofed toes.


Are they kosher?



Answer



According to Bikkores HaTalmud (Vienna, 1863, pp. 387-9), by Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkel HaLevi (cited by R Natan Slifkin here, page 10, and footnote 28), the "java mouse deer" is the shafan, which is classified as a non-kosher animal (Devarim 14:7). The same source posits that the "greater mouse deer" may be the arneves, which is also forbidden in the same verse.


However, R Slifkin finds this opinion to be problematic for a number of reasons, see op cit., ibid; see also the other articles cited by R Slifkin in that footnote there (28).


Thank you @GershonGold for posting this link ;-)



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