## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 98

###### Sifrei Devarim 98:1
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(דברים יד ו) **וְכָל בְּהֵמָה מַפְרֶסֶת פַּרְסָה וְשֹׁסַעַת שֶׁסַע שְׁתֵּי פְרָסוֹת וּמַעֲלַת גֵּרָה**, עַד שֶׁיְּהוּ בָהּ שְׁלֹשָׁה סִימָנִים הַלָּלוּ אֵינָהּ מֻתֶּרֶת בַּאֲכִילָה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 98**²¹⁶
1. “And every animal that parts the hoof,
which is split into two (*shosa`at shes`a*) and ruminates its cud” (Dt. 14:6).
Unless it possesses all three of these signs,
it is not permitted as food.

footnotes:
²¹⁶ H:146; JN1:255.


###### Sifrei Devarim 98:2
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אַבָּה חָנָן מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: הַשְּׁסוּעָה – מִין חַיָּה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
Abba Hanan, in the name of R. Eliezer, says:
[the animal known as] the *split one* (*shasu`ah*)
is a kind of wild cattle.2. [“Any *clean* bird you may eat” (Dt. 14:11)].


###### Sifrei Devarim 98:3
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אָמַר רַבִּי יֹאשִׁיָּה: כָּל מָקוֹם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים יד יא) ״צִפּוֹר״ – בַּטְּהוֹרָה הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
Said R. Yoshaiah:
Any place [in Scripture] that specifies *bird*—
the verse is identifying a clean one
[that may be eaten].


###### Sifrei Devarim 98:4
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אָמַר רַבִּי יִצְחָק: עוֹף טָהוֹר נִקְרָא ׳עוֹף׳ וְנִקְרָא ׳צִפּוֹר׳, וְהַטָּמֵא – אֵין נִקְרָא אֶלָּא ׳עוֹף׳ בִּלְבַד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Said R. Isaac:**
**clean fowl is called *fowl* and it is called *bird*.**
**But an *unclean* one**
**is never called anything but fowl.** ²¹⁷ per.5:3.

footnotes:
²¹⁷ Sifra, shemini,


###### Sifrei Devarim 98:5
[Sifrei Devarim 98:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/98:5)

(דברים יד יג) ״וְהָרָאָה״ זוֹ דַּיָּה, וְכֻלָּן מִין דַּיָּה. אִיסִי בֶן יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: יֵשׁ לוֹ מֵאָה מִינֵי עוֹפוֹת בַּמִּזְרָח, וְכֻלָּן מִין אַיָּה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
3. [“The buzzard, the falcon, and the kite” (Dt. 14:13)] —
the *kite* (*dayah*)—it is a falcon (*ayah*).
And, in fact, they are all a kind of kite.
Isi b. Judah says:
there are 100 types of fowl in the East,
and all of them are a kind of falcon.


###### Sifrei Devarim 98:6
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אַיָּה, ״דַּיָּה״, ״וְהָרָאָה״, ״וְהַדָּאָה״ – לָמָּה נִשְׁנוּ בְּמִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה? בַּבְּהֵמָה מִפְּנֵי הַשְּׁסוּעָה, וּבָעוֹף מִפְּנֵי הַדַּיָּה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
[One verse states]
“The *buzzard* (*ra’ah*), the *falcon (‘ayah*), and the *kite*” (*dayah*),
and any kind of raven (*`oreiv*)” (Dt. 14:13).
[yet another verse states:]
“The falcon, the *kite* (*da’ah*), the buzzard . . . and any kind of raven” (Lv. 11:14)—
why is this [list of unclean animals (Lv. 11:1-47)]
restated in the Repetition of the Torah (Dt. 14:3-21)?
[Regarding] the cattle, because of the *split one* (*shasu`ah)*,
and [regarding] the fowl—because of *the kite*,
[which is known as *dayah* (Dt. 14:13) and *da’ah* (Lv. 11:14)]²¹⁸98.1-2 appears out of place in relation to the flow of the scriptural text, while 98.3-4 is poorly attested in the textual tradition of Sifre. See Ish-Shalom, *ad loc*., n. 1, F:159, n.4, and his critical apparatus, ls. 4-11.

footnotes:
²¹⁸ Pisqa’