Midrash for Chullin 229:22
שאין תלמוד לומר מבושל מה תלמוד לומר מבושל לומר לך
- The Torah would not order to send it away if it would thereby lead to transgression.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'for a stumbling-block'. The finder of this mother-bird, ignorant of the fact that it has been sent away from the nest, would eat it, and so be led into sin by another's performance of a precept. It must therefore be permitted.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 14:6) "And every beast that has split hooves": Because we find that Scripture construed "treifah" ("torn" [in Shemoth 22:30 "and flesh in the field treifah you shall not eat"]) as "treifoth" (i.e., varieties of treifah that are forbidden to all [even non-priests]), I will also construe "pasul" (unfit) as "p'sulim" (i.e., unfit for eating for all), e.g., one's plowing with an ox and an ass (together), or with (animals dedicated as) offerings. It is, therefore, written (to include these as permitted to be eaten) "the ox, the lamb of sheep, and the kid of goats shall you eat."
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