[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Zev Sero]

On 17/11/2010 5:32 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:07:28PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Yes, we know that.  But on what basis did that minhag arise?  It must
>> have started in places where they didn't believe a mesorah was necessary,
>> or else out of a mistaken belief that a mesorah existed elsewhere.
>
> See RAZZ's article available at http://www.kashrut.com/articles/turkey/
> originally published in the Spring 1998 issue of the RJJ Journal.

Which boils down, more or less, to my summary.  The minhag arose either
in places where they allowed birds based on their simanim, or in places
where they mistakenly thought there was a mesorah.

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