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Nefesh B’Nefesh. Generally speaking, any food produced by a non-
kosher animal is non-kosher. Thus, the egg of a non-kosher bird
is not kosher but the egg of a kosher bird, such as a chicken,
is kosher. If one comes across an egg and does not know which
bird laid it, how does one tell a non-kosher egg from a kosher
egg? The Talmud gives us two ways to tell if an egg is of a non-
kosher bird. If the egg is totally round like a ball rather than
round at one end and tapered at the other end, a non-kosher bird
laid the egg. So, too, if the yolk of the egg surrounds the
white of the egg rather than the other way around, or if the egg
has no white but is filled with yolk. If, however, the egg is
round at one end and tapered at the other, the white of the egg
surrounds the yolk and it looks like the egg of a chicken or of
another identifiable kosher bird, the egg is kosher and may be
eaten without any fu