asdfjksdfsjkjksfdfsdfsaghdkjs apparently an important Ptolemaic figure was known as "the Hare", and so the sages had to come up with a workaround in the non-kosher animals list to avoid a political insult G-D that's so much!!! #DafYomi #Məgilah9

@glitternoodle out of curiosity, would it have been insulting to call them kosher or to call them non-kosher?
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@Felthry f r a n k l y it seems like a stretch to think that they would have cared either way, but calling them not-kosher (and thus "unclean" or "abhorrent") is the worry here

@glitternoodle i thought that might be the case but then i thought "calling them kosher probably implies you're calling them suitable to eat and that might be insulting too"
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@glitternoodle in either case though it does seem like a stretch to think anyone would be insulted by saying that the animal they're named after either is or is not suitable to eat
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@Felthry yeah, truly! especially since it happens in passing deep in a dry, technical section of a long religious text for a religion that you're . . . not a part of??? the concern seems . . . very overblown

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