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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
180 - EATING NEVELAH
Deuteronomy 14:21 -- “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”
Eating an olive’s size of the flesh of a nevelah is punished by whipping.
“Blood and nevelah, i.e. the flesh of an animal that has died of itself, are indigestible, and injurious as food; t’refah, an animal in a diseased state, is on the way to becoming nevelah.”*
* Moreh Nebuchim III, 48
For eating the flesh of an unclean animal or beast that has died of itself one incurs punishment for violation of Commandment 172; the Commandment now under consideration and the following refer only to clean animals.*
* Kedushah, Hilchoth Ma’achaloth Asuroth IV, 2