Questions tagged [shiluach-haken]
Questions regarding the biblical commandment to send away a mother bird before taking her young.
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Shiluach haken on injured birds
The mitzvah of Shiluach Haken applies only to kosher bird species. My question is, if a bird is of a kosher species but probably Treif from an injury, does it apply in that case? Sources for this ...
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How far does the mother have to fly away to fulfill the mitzva of Shiluach Haken?
Does the mother bird need to actually go away from the area of the nest or as long as it is removed from the nest it's fine even if it is in the immediate vicinity or right next to it.
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R' Elazar Hakalir's kerovah for Pesach and reason for אותו ואת בנו
Over Yom Tov I was looking at R' Elazar Hakalir's kerovah for the second day of Pesach, which is in the Daniel Goldschmidt machzor (available on Otzar Hachochmah, search for גולדשמידט) starting on ...
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Neta Revai is achzareyos?
The Chizkuni 22:6 explains that taking the mother bird with its young ones would be cruel. He also lists cooking a kid in the milk of its mother,and slaughtering a mother with its calf on the same day....
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Common denominator of the Mitzvot whose reward is "lengthened days?"
To my knowledge, there are 3 mitzvot in the Torah that explicitly state that the reward is lengthened days (long life):
1) Honoring one's parents (Exodus 20:12)
כַּבֵּ֥ד אֶת־אָבִ֖יךָ וְאֶת־אִמֶּ֑ךָ ...
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How must one send away the mother bird?
I was learning the halachos of Shiluach HaKen recently, and I was stunned to find that while the Shulchan Aruch discusses the halachos of the Mitzvah at length in Yoreh Deah 292, not once does he ...
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Why is the mitzvah called "Shiluach haken"? [duplicate]
Why is the mitzvah of sending away the mother bird before taking the young called שילוח הקן (Shiluach haken; "sending the nest")? It's not the nest you send away; it's the mother bird. I would have ...
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Sending away the mother bird, mitzvah at the onset?
The Mishnah in Chullin 141a says
הנוטל אם על הבנים ר' יהודה אומר לוקה ואינו משלח וחכמים אומרים לוקה משלח ואינו לוקה
Someone who takes the mother bird with the children, R' Yehudah says they're lashed ...
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Criteria for obligation to obligate oneself in mitzvot
Certain commandments are automatically obligatory, e.g., praying, reciting shema, eating matza on the first night of Passover, etc. Other commandments, however, seem to be obligatory only if one ...
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Is slaughtering the chick at the same time as removing it from the nest a possible loophole in the law about sending away the mother bird?
I'm learning Chulin 140b and I am having some difficulty understanding R' Hoshia's question near the top of the page.
הושיט ידו לקן ושחט מיעוט סימנים מהו מי אמרינן כיון דאילו שביק להו מטרפי בעינן ...
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Rashi on Berachos 33b "al kan tzipor yagiu rachamecha"
In Brachos 33b, the mishna says: "One who says [in his tefilla -Rashi], 'Your [God's] mercy reaches the birds nest'... shut him up."
Rashi says on that: אנשים שהיו מראים עצמם כמתכונים להעמיק בלשון ...
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Shooing away mother birds
Is there a discussion in the Talmud about why the Mitzvah of shooing away a mother bird before taking her chicks only applies to wild birds rather than all birds, including domesticated ones?
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Does one have to chase birds away from a nest in a tree which is partially on his own property?
following up on an answer to this question, that says that the requirement applies to birds you find "in the wild".
A person has a tree that has its trunk on his property. Some of the tree ...
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Before taking eggs from the hens, does the farmer have to chase the hens away?
Devarim 22:6-7 mentions that if you find a mother bird sitting on eggs or chicks, you must chase away the mother before you can take the eggs or chicks.
Does this imply that the farmer who collects ...
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Why do we still even try to do Sheluach HaKan?
If we don't need the birds' eggs, as they used to, why do we send a mother bird away from her own eggs just to fulfill the mitzvah of Sheluach HaKan? Would the mitzvah even apply if we are doing it ...
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Shiluach HaKen: why not "Hatzipor"
If you send away the bird, why is Shiluach HaKen called that, meaning "sending the nest", and not "Shiluach Hatzipor", "sending the bird"? The nest is staying in place!
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Shiluach haKen and character
A number of reasons are given for sending away the mother bird before taking her eggs/young. The Rambam says it is for the mercy on the mother bird. The Ramban says it is to perfect our own mercy.
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What is the source for the idea that only two mitzvot have a specific reward associated with them?
I have heard it said that only the mitzvot of kibbud av v'eim (honoring parents) and shiluach haken (sending away the mother bird before taking eggs) are given with an explicit reward (that your days ...
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Can one still send away a bird if one does not need its eggs?
Is the mitzva of shiluach haken only if you need the eggs?
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Shiluach HaKan and a possibly Tahor bird
Shuchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 292:1 rules that the commandment of shiluach hakan applies only to birds which are tahor, a kosher species. The meforshim explain that the Torah say tzipor which only refers ...
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B'rachah on Shiluach HaKen
In many, if not most, cases where we fulfill a positive commandment Chazal instituted a blessing (B'rachah) over fulfilling that command.
Looking through Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 292, and other ...
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Intentional Shilu'ach Hakan
Can one fairly be judged as a "bad person" or a naval bir'shus haTorah (see bottom) if he actively seeks out opportunities for shilu'ach hakan gratuitously (i.e. does not make use of the young birds)?
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