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From: rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu (Russell Hendel)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:42:16 -0400
Subject: Mermaids

Michael Broyde raises the issue of Kashruth of Mermaids.

Besides the Yerushalmi source that Michael mentions, another good
source(with references to other sources) is

	MALBIM: On Sifra, Lev 11:10---Malbim Footnote 80

Malbim makes an interesting phonetical correction to the Sifra and then
cites

Talmud Bavli, Becoroth 8: --"Dolfinin"
		Rashi there--"Sea fish, half man and half fish"

Mishnayoth, Cilayim 8:5, and Yalkut on Numbers 19 (A man when he dies in
a tent)
		"A 'man'---and not creatures that resemble a 'man')
Russell Hendel, Ph.d, ASA
rhendel @ mcs drexel edu