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Is cannibalism permitted by the Torah?

שו”תCategory: HalachaIs cannibalism permitted by the Torah?
asked 5 years ago

Is it permissible to eat humans? There is no explicit prohibition against this according to the Ramban
The Dog has a persecutory law against a human being, and I happen to know, according to tradition, how to slaughter a human being. Am I allowed to eat him?
Additionally, are humans flesh or fur?


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
https://www.yeshiva.org.il/wiki/index.php/%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9D This is not my flesh. The humble will eat and be satisfied. With appetite

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ח' replied 5 years ago

The dead are forbidden from enjoying themselves.

Since there is a prohibition against enjoying the dead, one must eat living people, as the saying goes: ‘A man shall devour his neighbor’ 🙂

With blessings, Chaim Blaou

הפוסק האחרון replied 5 years ago

Anyone who asks this question seriously would do well, for the good of the Jewish people, to be hospitalized in a closed ward.
It is written, "You shall not murder." If it were permissible to be a cannibal, the Torah would permit murder.
Does man raise a gnaw? Does he split a hoof?
It is written, "Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." From this we learn that man has flesh.

משה replied 5 years ago

“If it were allowed to be a cannibal, would the Torah allow murder”?
I didn't understand.

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