Gid hanasheh7/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Darkness blankets the ohr of comprehension. The latter means that the neshamah is estranged from its Creator. All galus, both national and personal, stems from this power. As Rabbi Yehuda notes (Chulin 100b), the gid hanasheh was prohibited from the time of Yaakov, a time when the concept of kosher and non-kosher animals did not yet exist and hence, if the Torah prohibits the gid hanasheh, it must apply to all animals, kosher or not. It may not be eaten by Jews according to Halacha. When Esav’s angel injured Yaakov’s gid hanasheh, he established his ability to wage war with Klal Yisrael. Regarding the fats next to the gid which we don’t eat, they are only assur m’drabonon, and the prohibition not to do business only applies to things that are assur m’dorayso.Īs a side point, the Eida Hachareidis, does not sell the hind quarters of the cows they shect, rather the cows are owned by gentiles, and whatever they want to buy they buy, and the hind quarters are simple not bought by them. Gid Hanasheh is the term for sciatic nerve in Judaism. To add to this, the opinion of Tosefos (Chullin 89b D:H V’hilchosa) is that since the gid hanasheh has no taste, therefore the gentile isn’t paying for it, and the price he is paying is for the rest of the hind quarter. Some hechsherim rely on this even for gid hanasheh and selling the hind quarter, the rationale being that they aren’t in business to sell hind quarters, rather this is what they can’t use, so they are selling it to gentiles. This is the reason why slaughterhouses can sell animals that are found to be treif- because they didn’t originally plan to sell the trief animals, rather it happened, that they have it. This source sheet serves as a basis for a Chaburah on the interplay between the Mitzvah of eating the Korban Pesach and the prohibition of Gid HaNasheh (GH). The Zohar teaches us that in every struggle we are powerful, and can overcome our evil urges if we so desire. One of the heterim to sell non – Kosher items is that the prohibition is only if the person prepares himself to sell the item, but not if a non- kosher item happens to come a person’s way. Is it perhaps because the only part of the hindquarters that is actually forbidden to do business with is the gid hanasheh and that has no value ? Vayishlach 5783: Sermon by Sofia Freudenstein, Propelling Forward and Spiritual Struggle: Gid haNasheh Toldot 5783: And She Went to Inquire of the Lord. This is the mitzvah of the gid hanasheh, the prohibition against eating the sciatic nerve on the hind quarters of cattle, an important facet of the dietary. ![]() If a kosher slaughterhouse is in the habit of selling the hindquarters, isn’t that in violation of doing business with non-kosher foods ? ![]()
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