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    05 Mar KASHRUS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT

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    Is one
    allowed
    to eat
    blood?
    Eating blood is as bad as
    it’s going to get. The Torah
    says in a number of places
    “lo sochlu cal dam”- do
    not eat any blood. Not
    only are we not allowed
    to eat or drink blood, but
    any food that has blood
    in it will automatically
    be not kosher. We know
    there are many important
    parts of the processing of

    kosher meat: Of course
    you can only eat kosher
    animals, the animal has
    to be killed by a shochet,
    and we have to check the
    lungs of all animals to
    make sure that they are
    kosher. The next step is
    the most complicated,
    but determines whether
    the meat receives a
    kosher certification.
    It is something called
    “Melicha”, salting. What
    the salting does is makes
    sure that there’s not a drop
    of blood left in the meat.

    In fact with
    liver, which the
    gemara says is
    “chulei dam,”
    meaning it’s all
    blood, salting is
    inadequate and
    the liver needs to
    be boiled. That’s
    the only way we
    can guarantee
    that all the blood has been
    extracted. So eating blood
    is forbidden under any
    circumstances; it doesn’t
    matter what type of blood
    whether it’s human blood

    or animal blood. The only
    blood that’s actually not
    prohibited is fish blood.
    So when we eat meat the
    most important step to
    make the meat kosher is
    the salting of the meat.