[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Zev Sero]

On 17/11/2010 8:05 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.

1. Rishonim?  It's the Bach.
2. Since when does the taregol adumah (whatever it is, or if there even
is such a thing in the first place) have a mesorah for kashrus?
3. Even if it were rishonim, and there were a mesorah for the tarnegol
adumah being kosher, this is just an example of the second option: a
place where they mistakenly thought there was a mesorah.



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