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Rambam In-Depth October 31, 2023 9 min

Rambam In-Depth | The Prohibition of transferring the Holiness of one Animal to another Animal

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Does transferring an animal’s holiness to another animal really incur lashes according to Jewish law? Find out the intense Talmudic debate around this wild biblical prohibition.

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00:00- Introducing the Prohibition of Temurah

In this class

  1. 0:00Introducing the Prohibition of Temurah
  2. 0:34The Rambam's Ruling and Question
  3. 1:25The Apparent Contradiction in the Rambam
  4. 3:14Resolving the Contradiction
  5. 6:03Further Analysis of the Debate

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