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The greatest rationalist in Jewish history looked at a list of animal defects, declared it sealed forever by divine authority, and refused to let science touch it. What did he see that we keep missing?
The Closed Book of Creation
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Chapters 2 through 4 of Hilchot Maachalot Asurot trace an extraordinary arc from the classification of forbidden species, through the processes that render permitted animals forbidden, to the Rambam's famous ruling that the eighteen trefah conditions are a closed, eternal list transmitted at Sinai.