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and you shall not eat the life with the flesh” (Deuteronomy 12:23). R' Yehuda and R' Elazar hold that with regard to any animal whose blood you are commanded not to eat, you are commanded with regard to its limbs, i.e., you are prohibited from eating its limbs that were severed while it was still a
And the Rabbis hold that the verse indicates: “And you shall not eat the life with the flesh” (Deuteronomy 12:23), but rather you shall eat the flesh alone, i.e., when the animal is no longer alive. Consequently, with regard to any animal whose flesh is permitted when it is slaughtered, you are com
The Talmud asks: But according to R' Yehuda, who holds that a prohibition takes effect upon an already existing, less stringent prohibition, why does he need to derive this from a verse? Let the prohibition of eating a limb from a living animal come and take effect on the prohibition of eating meat
The Talmud responds: Yes, that is indeed so. R' Yehuda does not need to derive this halakha from a verse, and the verse was necessary only according to the opinion of R' Elazar, who holds that a prohibition does not take effect where there is an already existing prohibition, even if the second pr
This fact that it is R' Elazar who derives this halakha from the verse, as opposed to R' Yehuda, is also taught in a baraita: The prohibition of eating a limb from a living animal applies with regard to a limb from a domesticated animal, an undomesticated animal, or a bird, and whether it is from a