Q&A: Milk
Milk
Question
Why is milk from a cow kosher, even though it comes from a limb of a living animal and therefore should not be kosher? And bee honey is a special decree of Scripture.
Answer
What does this have to do with a limb from a living animal? Maybe you mean “that which comes from the non-kosher,” but a cow is not non-kosher; it is kosher. Bees are non-kosher (forbidden to eat), and there the honey should indeed have been forbidden under the rule of “that which comes from the non-kosher.” But the Sages assumed that honey is stored differently in bees (separate from the main body), and therefore it is not considered something that comes from the non-kosher.
Discussion on Answer
The question is that the milk should have been non-kosher, because when it comes out of the cow it comes out of an animal that is not kosher, since right now it has not been slaughtered yet, so it is a living animal.
But it is not one of its limbs. As far as I know, the blood of an animal is also not forbidden under the rule of a limb from a living animal. Regarding blood and milk, there is a discussion at the beginning of Ketubot (6b) whether it is merely deposited there or uprooted from its place.
Wikipedia:
Even though milk is taken from the animal while it is still alive, it is not included in the prohibition of “a limb from a living animal.”[8]
[8] In the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bekhorot, page 6b, several proofs are brought for this.
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