[Avodah] buffalo

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

R' Eli Turkel asks:

> YD 28:4 discusses a buffalo. What animal are the mechaber and Rama
> talking about (American Bison wasn't discovered yet)

Google is wonderful. I entered "yoreh deah 28:4", and the third hit brought
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) rules that one does not
> perform kisuy hadam for a buffalo; this determines it to be a
> beheimah. (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.

Akiva Miller
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