[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:37:47PM -0500, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> 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.

: IIrC R'HS says it's the latter based on the sfardim and the ashkenazim
: picked it up from them.

I'm going to repeat myself because RZS's "boils down, more or less, to
my summary" hides I point I made. RAZZ's article includes mention of
that MB, who sites a trail of sources back to the rishonim that shows
that people believed the turkey was the tarnigol adumah which already
had a mesorah. A different route than the two RZS lists, including the
one RJR recalls RHS giving.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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