He concludes his passage reiterating the importance and necessity of a porger’s proficiency and capability. With his vast knowledge and expertise, Rav Eibeshutz thus averted potential communal disaster. Rav Yonason writes that he showed this fellow the error of his ways as the sinew this porger was referring to was found exclusively in male animals, and could therefore not possibly be the correct one, for it states in the “ SMaG(ostensibly the Sefer Mitzvos Hagadol, written by Rav Moshe of Coucy in the 13th century, Negative Commandment 139) that the prohibition of Gid Hanasheh applies to both males and females”. The ramifications of his claim were gargantuan, for if it were deemed accurate, consequently all of World Jewry would have chas veshalom been eating non-kosher from time immemorial! He related that an expert porger came to town (Prague) claiming that the sinew that Jews have been removing for centuries was the wrong one! This treibberer alleged that a different sinew was the true Gid Hanasheh. In the latter sefer, in his commentary to the laws of Gid Hanasheh, Rav Yonason recorded a fascinating historical incident, which posthumously sparked a raging halachic controversy. One of the most outstanding experts in hilchos nikkur known was Rav Yonason Eibeshutz zt”l (1690 – 1764), one of the greatest Torah giants of his period and famed author of 89(!) works, including the renowned Yaaros Devash, Urim V’Tumim, and Kreisi U’Pleisi. treibbering, deveining, or porging the forbidden nerves and fats, and it takes an expert to do it properly. To fulfill this mitzvah properly, every last trace of said nerves and the fat covering the sciatic nerve must be removed as well. The Sefer HaChinuch writes that this mitzvah actually serves as a constant reminder that eventually we will be redeemed from this protracted exile. Additionally, there is a Rabbinic prohibition on eating from the outer sinew of the animal’s thigh tendon. In Parshas Vayishlach, after Yaakov Avinu’s epic battle with Eisav’s guardian angel, where he got injured in his hip socket, we are given a Biblical commandment, the third and last of the whole sefer Bereishis, that Bnei Yisrael may not partake of the Gid Hanasheh, the sciatic nerve, of any animal. I hope you enjoy this excellent and fascinating tale connected to Parashas Vayishlach! Coincidence? You decide.Click here to see the original post from Ohr Somayach Institutions Hashem shows special love to his people through the thirteen attributes of mercy. The above was taken from a Sicha by Rabbi Leventhal of the Old City in Jerusalem. All it leaves behind is complete waste, as with the gid hanasheh which we know is inedible. It does not benefit one in the next world, nor in this world. The Torah then would logically prohibit the eating of the gid hanasheh to teach a lesson about the yetzer hara. One can understand this to mean that he was hurt spiritually, and that the gid hanasheh is the one part of the body the yetzer hara, evil inclination, was able to get hold of. Not only would we not eat it for other halachic reasons, we wouldn’t even eat it for health reasons, still we get credit.Īnother, deeper way, is to backtrack to Yaakov’s mysterious fight with an angel, and how he is hurt in his gid hanasheh. Why then is this seemingly obvious prohibition explained in detail in our parsha? One classic answer is that Hashem wanted to give the Jews extra credit, a bonus. This seems extraneous, since the Gemara tells us that the ligament is tasteless and inedible, and the we know that halachically, according to Jewish law, any inedible ligament is not kosher. In this week’s parsha, the Torah forbids eating a certain ligament called the gid hanasheh.
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