LessonsSu’r: Categories, Purity, and Juristic DifferencesQuiz

Birds of prey include hawks, falcons and eagles. Though they eat flesh, they drink with a hard beak rather than a saliva-bearing mammalian mouth.

Their su’r is therefore not treated like the intrinsically impure leftover of predatory land beasts; it is disliked because traces of impure food may remain on the beak.

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Why Birds of Prey Are Disliked

Su’r: Categories, Purity, and Juristic Differences

Birds of prey include hawks, falcons and eagles. Though they eat flesh, they drink with a hard beak rather than a saliva-bearing mammalian mouth.

Their su’r is therefore not treated like the intrinsically impure leftover of predatory land beasts; it is disliked because traces of impure food may remain on the beak.