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Parshat Noach - Kosher vs Non Kosher animals

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this week is parous Noah Noah succeeded in saving all of the mammals and the birds of the world from the flood the Torah tells us that we can identify kosher mammals based on whether or not they chew their cud which is something that you have to really watch the animal but also by looking at the Animal by looking at its feet you can tell if the animal is kosher kosher mammals have split hoves here we have the hoof of a actually a giraffe but you could see it's a more rounded hoof compared to the hoof of a deer which is a more pointed but both these hooves are split as opposed to the hoof of a zebra where you could see the hoof is not split and another kind of foot which is not a hoof at all is a claw which of course is not a split hoof the other way that kazal have that we can identify a kosher mammal is based on its horns only kosher mammals have horns there are two kinds of horns that are recognized as being on kosher mammals the first is a horn which is hollow such as this the Horn of a spring buck and this is the Horn of a prorn both of them are Hollow there are other kinds of hollow horns but they look either like one of these and the other kind of horn which would be on a kosher animal is this horn which is the Horn of an elk or this which is the Horn of a moose these horns tend to fall off they are not on top of the skull meaning they're not covering the skull they just rest on the skull and fall off at the end of the season