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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #188 of 613

Not to partake of the meat of an ox that was stoned to death

שלא לאכול בשר שור הנסקל

Parashat Mishpatim משפטים · Sefer HaChinuch #52

The verse · Shemot 21:28

וְכִי־יִגַּח שׁוֹר אֶת־אִישׁ אוֹ אֶת־אִשָּׁה וָמֵת סָקוֹל יִסָּקֵל הַשּׁוֹר וְלֹא יֵאָכֵל אֶת־בְּשָׂרוֹ וּבַעַל הַשּׁוֹר נָקִי

“If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to partake of the meat of an ox that was stoned to death, as [Exodus 21:28] states: "And do not eat its flesh."

שלא לאכול בשר שור הנסקל, שנאמר "ולא ייאכל את בשרו" (שמות כא,כח).

Why · Sefer HaChinuch #52

Not to eat from the meat of an ox that was stoned

“It is from the roots of the commandment [that it is] in order to establish in our mind that anyone that has a mishap happen through him is distanced and disgusting for G-d and for people; even if it is inadvertent — like with an animal that has no intelligence — and all the more so, if it is volitional.”

Who & when

“And the commandment of the prohibition of its meat is practiced by males and females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Forbidden Foods הלכות מאכלות אסורות

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