Mea Shearim – Four-Legged Chicken Sparks Debate over Kosher Status

    32

    Yoelish Krauss, a slaughterer, holds rare chicken with 4 legs, at a slaughterhouse in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. June 28, 2011. Photo by Nati Shohat / Flash90.Mea Shearim – A four-legged chicken born in a Jerusalem slaughter house has started a religious debate regarding its kosher label, which can only be determined once it is slaughtered, according to local media.

    Join our WhatsApp group

    Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


    The twelve-toed chicken awaited its fate in a cage on the floor of Yoel Kroish family’s slaughter house, waiting for local rabbis to decide whether or not the animal was kosher, the Internet news agency NTN24 reported.

    If the legs are tied together, according to local rabbis, the chicken is not kosher. This they said could only be determined by slaughtering the animal.

    “I don’t know, for now we will give it to the rabbis to check if it is kosher or not. If it’s kosher, we will slaughter it, if not, we will see what to do,” Kroish said.

    However, the chicken may survive if Kroish decides to go ahead with his plan and sell the chicken to the highest bidder, media reports said.


    Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

    iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

    Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


    Connect with VINnews

    Join our WhatsApp group


    32 Comments
    Most Voted
    Newest Oldest
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    please tell what is possibly treif about such a chicken if it is a healthy fowl

    Satmar
    Satmar
    12 years ago

    the chicken was brought to the beda”tz eidah to decide.

    Shmuli
    Shmuli
    12 years ago

    Nothing new.
    We’ve had them in Crown Heights several times, the renowned shochet Rabbi Turk would bring his interesting finds into the Crown Heights Kollel to show the Rabbonim and those of us learning shchita.
    He’s brought 3 legged chickens several times and at least once, that i remember, a 4 legged chicken.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    For somone who is not a farmboy, how many legs is a kosher chicken supposed to have and where in the torah does it specify that a 3 legged chicken is treifus??

    EMZEE
    EMZEE
    12 years ago

    Sorry, I can’t resist:

    A man was driving along a freeway when he noticed a chicken running along side his car. He was amazed to see the chicken keeping up with him because he was doing 50 MPH. He accelerated to 60 and the chicken stayed right next to him. He speeded up to 75 MPH and the chicken passed him up. The man noticed the chicken had three legs. So, he followed to chicken down a road and ended up at a farm. He got out of his car and saw that all the chickens had three legs.
    He asked the farmer “What’s up with these chickens?”

    The farmer said “Well, everybody likes chicken legs. I bred a three legged bird. I’m going to be a millionaire.” The man asked him how they tasted.

    The farmer said “Don’t know, haven’t caught one yet.”

    oiber-chacham
    oiber-chacham
    12 years ago

    waiting for the inevetable ignorant comment,that this chicken for sure, must be a GILGUL of somebody.
    maybe this chicken should be buried in the same grave together with the talking fish
    of Skvertown

    jnuss
    jnuss
    12 years ago

    I remember a while back the KJ poultry had a posting of the same thing.
    To my recollection the Satmer Rebbe said that its not kosher as the Halacha says “kol hyeser kenotil dome” anything extra is as if its missing.
    Let’s see what the bdat”z will pasken.

    12 years ago

    Tzomes hagidim?

    DRSLZ
    DRSLZ
    12 years ago

    One wonders if those who consider this chicken to be kosher have a leg to stand on.

    Secular
    Secular
    12 years ago

    Although it may be kosher, its clearly a mutant, who’d want to eat it?

    12 years ago

    Very cute. The comments, that is. As expected. Chicken joke and all. Anybody here makes a living as a comedian? But seriously, why slaughter the rare bird? Surely there’s a farmer out there who’d be tickled to add it to his collection.

    12 years ago

    According to the article, the chicken was born in a slaughterhouse. This is much more unusual than the extra legs. Most chickens are hatched, not born.

    ShlomoH
    ShlomoH
    12 years ago

    The guy holding the chicken looks eerily familiar. Isn’t he the fellow that was featured on VIN a while back regarding throwing acid on not modestly dressed women in Meah Shearim? I believe VIN featured him in a video interview. Could there be any connection between a four legged chicken and acid in women’s faces? Or does Yoelish Krauss do anything it takes to be featured on Vosizneias? Just asking.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Yup…thats the same Rav Yoelish who is the principal “enforcer” of the Meah Sheaarim Tzinus Squad.

    12 years ago

    to #13
    Its not mishugaas its a gemara in maseches chullin in the third perek daf 58 b that deals with simanei treifah that says kol yeser k’natul dami. it actually is dealing with a case very much like this, saying that an extra or missing hand is a mum (like for a korban) but not a treifa, and if it has an extra or missing leg, its even a treifa. obviously then, the issue is whether these limbs are considered legs or arms. See the mefarshim there for explanations.

    newtransplant
    newtransplant
    12 years ago

    What got me was the gentle way he was handling the chicken, holding it and stroking it gently, THAT is a yiddishe trait that should be encouraged!

    GG_Jew
    GG_Jew
    12 years ago

    That Yoelish sure keeps himself busy – The Eidahs Chief Whip, his museum of tzetlech, and a shochet as well! So much for the ‘unemployed bum’ stereotype!

    Bezalel
    Bezalel
    12 years ago

    I don’t know which is grosser: the four-legged chicken or the man with blood soaking his abdomen and splattered on his eyeglasses.

    Aryeh
    Aryeh
    12 years ago

    Great News! Now we can reopen the tick tack toe chicken game and save the Chinatown arcade!

    12 years ago

    I have no idea how much a chicken costs, but i am sure that it is less than the time to go ask a shailah and involve everyone else in this foolishness.

    Ebay will easily give him much more than a regular chicken is worth, and if he put this to the side, he would made MUCH more money doing his job than wasting everyone else’s time.

    As a curiosity, if he wants to discuss this with his rov hypothetically, it is a wonderful time-waster.

    But you people weighing in halachically when not a single one of you is a dayan or posek, is a joke.

    And, unfortunately, the stupid jokes made here reflect a tremendous immaturity in VIN readers and writers.

    Get over this, stop wasting everyone’s time, and let the chicken be a pet for some poor family.