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Positive commandment · Mitzvat Aseh #151 of 613

Checking the signs of grasshoppers

לבדוק בסימני חגבים לידע טהור מן הטמא

Parashat Shmini שמיני · Sefer HaChinuch #158

The verse · Vayikra 11:21

אַךְ אֶת־זֶה תֹּאכְלוּ מִכֹּל שֶׁרֶץ הָעוֹף הַהֹלֵךְ עַל־אַרְבַּע אֲשֶׁר־[לוֹ] כְרָעַיִם מִמַּעַל לְרַגְלָיו לְנַתֵּר בָּהֵן עַל־הָאָרֶץ

“Yet these may you eat of every flying creeping thing that goes upon four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;”

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The Rambam’s words

To check the signs of grasshoppers in order to know which is kosher and which is not kosher, as [Leviticus 11:21] states: "Those which possess jointed [leg like] extensions...."

לבדוק בסימני חגבים לידע טהור מן הטמא, שנאמר: "אשר לו כרעיים" (ויקרא יא,כא).

Who & when

“And [it] is practiced in all places and at all times by males and females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Forbidden Foods הלכות מאכלות אסורות

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