water troughs where the flock would come to drink, in front of the flock. Now they would be in heat as they came to drink; thus the flock came to be in heat by the rods, and the flock bore streaked, specked, and dappled young. Source #5: Bereshit Rabbati, Vayetze (p. 129) לא היה אלא היה That you have made them little less than divine—This refers to Jacob, for it says (in Genesis 30:39), and since the goats mated by the Rabbi would draw an image, and just as he rods…. Hoshaya explains, “He drew, so the seed formed in the water of their wombs, and so did they give birth. This teaches that [Jacob] lacked only the ability to give them a soul.” Rabbinic Source: Establishing Guidelines for Kilayim Source #6: Talmud Yerushalmi, Tractate Kilayim 1:1 (Venice ed., 27a) אלו How do we know that one may not graft a barren tree onto a fruit tree, nor a fruit tree onto a fruit tree of a different species? Because it [the Torah] states: Guard my in the statutes. R’ Yonah [quotes] R’ ‘Lazar name of Kahana: It is in accord with those that I have established R. ‘Lazar’s saying—“the statutes—are in Henceforth it is forbidden [to blend species] since Adam the First. Yosi in the name of My world.” R’ Rabbi Hila [says], all agree that [the prohibition derives from the that I have established word] “statutes” in my world. Henceforth it is forbidden to graft a black fig [tree] onto a white fig [tree]. The Post-Rabbinic Debate Source #7: Sefer HaHinukh (anonymous, 13th c., Barcelona), #545, Sending off the mother bird…: God created the species to persist. וגו', אל ה'
water troughs where the flock would come to drink, in front of the flock. Now they would be in heat as they came to drink; thus the flock came to be in heat by the rods, and the flock bore streaked, specked, and dappled young. Source #5: Bereshit Rabbati, Vayetze (p. 129) אל היה היה אלא That you have made them little less than divine—This refers to Jacob, for it says (in Genesis 30:39), and since the goats mated by the rods…. Rabbi Hoshaya explains, “He would draw an image, and just as he drew, so the seed formed in the water of their wombs, and so did they give birth. This teaches that [Jacob] lacked only the ability to give them a soul.” Rabbinic Source: Establishing Guidelines for Kilayim Source #6: Talmud Yerushalmi, Tractate Kilayim 1:1 (Venice ed., 27a) How do we know that one may not graft a barren tree onto a fruit tree, nor a fruit tree onto a fruit tree of a different species? Because it [the Torah] states: Guard my statutes. R’ Yonah [quotes] R’ ‘Lazar in the name of Kahana: It is in accord with R. ‘Lazar’s saying—“the statutes—are those that I have established in My world.” Henceforth it is forbidden [to blend species] since Adam the First. R’ Yosi in the name of Rabbi Hila [says], all agree that [the prohibition derives from the word] “statutes” that I have established in my world. Henceforth it is forbidden to graft a black fig [tree] onto a white fig [tree]. The Post-Rabbinic Debate Source #7: Sefer HaHinukh (anonymous, 13th c., Barcelona), #545, Sending off the mother bird…: God created the species to persist. וגו', לא ה' אלו
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