[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

A while back, we had a discussion about poskim who make decisions based on their intuitive sense of what the answer ought to be, and then they find sources to support it, as opposed to going into the subject neutral and letting the sources determine the answer.

I sense many parallels to that here. As RAZZ was quoted:

> For some reason "bird controversies" erupted in the 18th and 19th
> centuries and when the turkey question was posed it often took the
> form of "why is it eaten?" rather than "may it be eaten?"

In RAZZ's view, it seems that Klal Yisrael, en masse, saw the turkey and understood it to be kosher. Hanach lahem livnei Yisrael; im einam nevi'im, b'nei nevi'im hem.  As if to say, "If the rabbis don't understand it, let them discuss and argue, but I know what's kosher." Not in an indifferent or cavalier way, but in a sincere and temimusdik way.

Akiva Miller


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