[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Zev Sero]

On 21/11/2010 1:40 PM, Akiva Blum wrote:

>> Back to Moshe Rabbenu.  That is the premise of the whole business of
>> requiring a mesorah for birds.
>
> Chazal had a system for identifying kosher birds, and it's clear that
> they actually used it. No mesorah could claim to be older than whatever
> time the system was still being used.

Why shouldn't a mesorah be older than that?  And if I recall the
discussion in Eilu Treifos correctly, the system they came up with
was more descriptive than prescriptive, and was something they derived
by observing the birds they had a mesorah for.   And the opinion that
no system is good enough, and one needs a mesorah, goes back to their
day.

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