[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:39:22PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>>                                   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.

If you open the MB RAZZ points to, you'll see he traces it back to
the Rashba and the TR"Y, who I described in my prior post as "Talmidei
Rabbeinu Yonah (if I got TR"Y correct)".

Yes, your post does summarize RAZZ's article, however, I found in
this footnote a useful source for a third guess at the history.

Now, how the Bach could think the Rashba in the 13th cent could have
been talking about turkeys is a different question.

> 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.

Yes, but a different kind of mistake.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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