Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah · Siman 62

Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah 62 — English translation

Translation: Sefaria Community Translation. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1A limb from a live animal is forbidden from a domesticated animal, a wild animal, or fowl.
2. 2A limb that separates from a live animal is forbidden. And flesh that separates from a live animal is forbidden because of "And the flesh in the field Treifah." And even what separates from the animal [but] is still inside it - such as [where it was] cut from the spleen or from the kidneys and the piece was left inside it - it is forbidden.
3. 3A limb or flesh that is minced (Injured) and can not be reattached back into the animal, even if it was separated after the shechita, It is forbidden (to eat it). Hagah: in Siman 55 states, the Yeteret (an extra piece of meat on the animal that does not cause the animal to no longer be considered kosher) is still on the animal. The animal is still kosher. Additionally, we do not say that a removed Yeter is considered like a minced limb (and forbidden). The Yeter can even be eaten. Nevertheless, the Rashba (שו"ת הרשב"א חלק א סימן פט) says that the minhag (tradition) is to be stringent (and not eat the Yeter meat).
4. 4An animal's male organ that has been detached but is still covered (the flesh and skin still covers the organ), is not forbidden by the Torah, because the organ is not considered without life (not considered dead tissue) and has not rotted. Even though this organ is not forbidden to eat, the minhag (tradition) of (Klal) Yisrael is not to eat it because it looks like a limb from a live animal.

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