11-30-2012, 08:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2012, 08:59 PM by Director Michael.)
(11-30-2012, 08:56 AM)Kat450 Wrote: thank you for your reply. what about about Rashi's commentary?
"with its soul, its blood: As long as its soul is within it."
As, Judaism teaches that the blood is the soul
That is not what Judaism (i.e. the Torah) teaches. The physical blood is not the soul. The spiritual soul is in the physical blood, as long as the animal is alive. When the animal dies, the spiritual soul departs from the animal and returns to its spiritual source. Therefore, the phrase "as long as its soul is within it" means "as long as it is alive".
(11-30-2012, 08:56 AM)Kat450 Wrote: wouldn't that mean any blood left in the flesh we are not permitted to eat? thank you
It's not forbidden based on that commandment to Noah, as explained. (Although Rashi cites a minority opinion, which you didn't mention, that Gentiles are forbidden to drink the blood of a living animal. But the actual Torah Law follows the majority opinion as cited by Rambam in Laws of Kings, that Gentiles were never forbidden to drink/eat blood of a living or a dead animal. Gentiles are however warned against inflicting unnecessary pain or suffering on living creatures.)
Jews are forbidden from eating the blood of animals and birds, from a separate Jewish commandment.