[Avodah] buffalo

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed May 11 08:00:44 PDT 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:52:18AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
: me to http://www.yeshiva.co/midrash/shiur.asp?id=9338 (see there for info
: about who they are) which says:
: 
: > The Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh Deah 28:4) ...
: >           (He is presumably referring to the Asian water buffalo,
: > which was domesticated in Southern Europe hundreds of years
: > before the Shulchan Aruch.) ...

: Later in that paragraph he mentions some other species that might have been
: meant.

I think that is a list of other species for which the same logic would
apply, and not other possible translations of buffalo.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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