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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
217 - MATING ANIMALS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES
By this prohibition, it is forbidden to mate animals of different kinds. The penalty for doing this is whipping. By Rabbinical law, any act which may cause cattle to mate with an unlike kind is likewise forbidden.*
“Our sages teach us that we ought not to look at beasts or birds in the moment of their copulation. According to my opinion, this is the reason the crossbreeding of cattle is prohibited. It is a fact that animals of different species do not copulate together, unless by force… Our Law therefore, objected to any person’s degrading himself by doing theses things, which require so much vulgarity and indecency.”*