[Avodah] Ben PeKuAh - is there an Issue ReViAh?

[Rabbi Meir G. Rabi]

Ben PeKuAh is to the Halacha what the Platypus was to the botanists.
as per the Meshech Chochmah - beginning of Vayera - its meat may be cooked
with milk and there is not even a problem with Maris HaAyin.

Furthermore, aside from all the 'normal' food prohibitions that it
sidesteps, it may be harnessed to and interbred with other animals -
including bestiality, or is at least suspected of being exempt from these
prohibitions.

Tosafot [s.v. lime’utei 74b] explain that although the prohibition of cross
breeding applies even to a beheimah that is about to but has not yet
expired,
nevertheless, we might suspect that it does not apply to the ben pekuah
which is an even lesser status and for this reason the Gemara must clarify
that it is prohibited.

Do Tosafot mean it is less ‘alive’ than a beheimah that is about to expire?
Or perhaps they mean it is less of a beheimah?

The Ma'asai LaMelekh [Mishneh Torah, Issurei Mizbeach 4:2 - HebrewBooks –
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=7438&st=&pgnum=158 ] explains:
the shechted beheimah is/was a beheimah whereas the ben pekuah never was.



Best,

Meir G. Rabi

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