Rabbit and hare
Is it true to say that the rabbit and the hare do not chew their cud? This is not a question of the Torah being from heaven. After all, even if a human wrote it, he would not be such an idiot as to write about just a random animal that chews cud and does not have hooves. This means that the writer of the Torah (again assuming that he is a human) knew the rabbit and the hare and claimed that they chew their cud. We just need to understand what chewing the cud is that he was referring to. Do you agree with the claim?
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But his thinking that it does constitute a ma'alah is the definition of a ma'alah according to the Torah.
In the Bible, the word "rabbit" is used to describe the animal's feces.
Review the articles by Oren Said (Do the rabbit and the hare chew gum? on the Torah and Science website) and Gil-Ad Stern (The Rabbit and the Hare, on the Knowledge to Believe website), which state that the rabbit and the hare are similar to the ruminants in two respects:
(a) in the form of horizontal chewing,
(b) in repeated digestion. The difference in repeated digestion is that in other ruminants, the material is returned for repeated digestion within the body, while the rabbit and the hare swallow the soft feces from the anus and thus return them for final digestion.
With greetings, The Horned Rabbit
Sounds like a good argument to me, because surely if he thought they were from the gerah, he recognized a certain characteristic for which he attached the attribute of gerah to them.
And this characteristic is the intention of the Torah.
Even if this characteristic differs from the scientific characterization…
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