11-29-2012, 08:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2019, 10:27 AM by Director Michael.)
You are misreading this statement that was commanded to Noah, and admittedly it is a bit confusing in this English translation. The more correct way to read the verse is:
"4. But, flesh (with its soul, its blood), you shall not eat." It is only forbidding Gentiles to eat a certain category of flesh.
The verse means: as long as flesh is part of an animal that is living (i.e. with soul-containing life-blood pumping through it), you shall not remove and eat that flesh (i.e., not to eat that flesh straight off from the living animal, as a lion would do, nor to remove it from the living animal and eat it while the animal is still alive).
The verse teaches a Noahide Law, namely, to wait until the animal is dead, so it is no longer with its soul that was residing in its life-blood (the sign of death is that the heart has stopped pumping life-blood). Then it is no longer "flesh of a living animal", and then it is not forbidden from this verse to eat that flesh (including the blood that's left in it).
There is an additional rule within the Noahide Code, that if flesh was removed from a living animal, it should never be eaten, even after the animal dies.
This commandment applies to land mammals and birds. For complete information, see the book "The Divine Code" by Rabbi Moshe Weiner: https://asknoah.org/books/the-divine-code
"4. But, flesh (with its soul, its blood), you shall not eat." It is only forbidding Gentiles to eat a certain category of flesh.
The verse means: as long as flesh is part of an animal that is living (i.e. with soul-containing life-blood pumping through it), you shall not remove and eat that flesh (i.e., not to eat that flesh straight off from the living animal, as a lion would do, nor to remove it from the living animal and eat it while the animal is still alive).
The verse teaches a Noahide Law, namely, to wait until the animal is dead, so it is no longer with its soul that was residing in its life-blood (the sign of death is that the heart has stopped pumping life-blood). Then it is no longer "flesh of a living animal", and then it is not forbidden from this verse to eat that flesh (including the blood that's left in it).
There is an additional rule within the Noahide Code, that if flesh was removed from a living animal, it should never be eaten, even after the animal dies.
This commandment applies to land mammals and birds. For complete information, see the book "The Divine Code" by Rabbi Moshe Weiner: https://asknoah.org/books/the-divine-code