Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 227:10

גדול בעי אומדנא קטן נמי ליבעי אומדנא אמר רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע סתם תינוק מסוכן אצל חלב:

though this is forbidden to an adult.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The milk of an unclean beast is for adults Pentateuchally forbidden. Cf. Bek. 6b. ');"><sup>41</sup></span> Abba Saul stated: It was our practice to suck from a clean beast on a festival.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the restrictions on work are not as rigid as those of the Sabbath. ');"><sup>42</sup></span> At any rate it was here stated that 'there is no need to have scruples about his sucking from a detestable thing'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though he is eating a Pentateuchally forbidden food (v. supra n. 6 and cf. supra p. 802, n. 4)! ');"><sup>43</sup></span> — [The permissibility] there is due to [the presence of] danger.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without food the child's life is endangered. ');"><sup>44</sup></span> If so, an adult also [should be permitted]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When life is in danger any religious law may be infringed. ');"><sup>45</sup></span>

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