[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:27:19AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> To reply to RZS's point... The Torah lists treif birds. What one would
>> need a mesorah for back to MRAH would be which birds are treif. See SA YD
>> 82:1 "... ela manah minim temei'im bilvad, ushe'ar minei ha'of mutarim".
>> Continuing in the next siman, bediqa is needed because of a lack of
>> expertise in knowing what those 24 minim temei'im include.
>
> Which would itself be a mesorah dating back to Moshe....

As to which is treif, not which are kosher. Meaning that the default if
you match the simanim is that it's kosher, unless you have a mesorah to
rule it out.

Very different than saying one only eats birds that have a mesorah they
are kosher.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha