Commentary for Shabbat 180:6

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך אמר רבי עקיבא</strong></big><br><br>

What is the reason? Lest he [the child] eat it. If so, a clean [locust] is the same, for R. Kahana was standing before Rab and passing a shoshiba<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A species of long-headed locust, which is eatable. ');">¹²</span> in front of his mouth. 'Take it away,' said he to him, 'that people should not say that you are eating it and thereby violating [the injunction], ye shall not make yourselves abominable.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XI, 43. The abomination consists in eating it alive. ');">¹³</span> Rather [the reason is] lest it dies and he [the child] eat it. But R. Judah [holds], if it dies the child will indeed weep for it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But not eat it. ');">¹⁴</span>

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