Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 227:9

קתני מיהא אין חוששין ביונק שקץ התם משום סכנה אי הכי גדול נמי

Come and hear: An [Israelite] child may be regularly<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and goes'. ');">³⁶</span> breast fed by an idolatress or an unclean beast, and there is no need to have scruples about his sucking from a detestable thing;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is forbidden to adults. Cf. Lev. XI, 10ff. ');">³⁷</span> but he must not be directly fed with nebeloth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Plural of nebelah (v. Glos.). ');">³⁸</span> terefoth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sing. is terefah q.v. Glos. ');">³⁹</span> detestable creatures or reptiles. From all these, however, he may suck, even on the Sabbath,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When sucking is under certain conditions forbidden, as explained infra. ');">⁴⁰</span>

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