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There is no prohibition on eating rock, even if you manage to make it edible. If the Torah didn’t set limits on a class of food you don’t need to withold for lack of express permission.
Therefore, if I catch an alien, can I eat it? Would it need Shechita oreven Nechira? Assuming that אבר מן החי applies, do we need explicit definition of what removes that Issue?
If the aliens are animals, they would have to meet the same requirements as regular earthly animals, and we would also need a tradition that they were kosher (this would probably require a navi, so don’t hold your breath). If an alien were sentient, the question (addressed in science fiction) is whether they could become a ger. If a plant, it would probably be kosher – but consider what if the plant were sentient and wanted to convert. The probability is that any alien food source would be toxic for humans, or at least would be inedible due to a different chemical composition.
Is it applicable to you today?
A rock isnt considered a חי vis a vis דומם, צומח etc only a חי would need שחיטה which if there were aliens they would need it but why wouldn’t it need other סימני כשרות
oh, i thought you meant illegal aliens
Assuming that it has the איסור אבר מן החי that means it’s a living animal, if so it has to be categorized as kosher in the animal world, so if it’s a bird it needs a mesora מדאורייתא גם לספרדים if it’s a animal than it can be mutar only if it has סימני טהרה otherwise its assur.
What happens if Elon Musk is right and there are real people on Mars? Do we first have to confirm their hashkafah before considering how to use them in our favorite chulent recipe (presuming of course we can also obtain a top of the line chassideshe hashgacha from the shaliach to Mars).
Depends on how you define “Ein Davar Tamei Yored Min Hashamayim”
Why eat him, convince to get you the numbers of the lottery!!
Why eat him, convince him to get you the numbers of the lottery!!
Does HaLeiVi eat everything he meets? I would have thought that the question would be may we convert them and marry them?
If it fell down “For The Heaven”, then it’s Kosher.
There can be no Geirus with an Alien.
Only humans can convert (a human is defined as an earthly being with a soul).
While an Alien could be like humans in everyway, that they’re not descendants of Adam and Eve means they have no Neshama & can’t convert.Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? If you want something to eat, take a break from your beis medrash shteiging and go get a tuna beigel.
Teiku
KuvultL What is your source that Ha-Shem never created people in other worlds (or universes)? And where does it say that only a human can convert?
I would worry more whether their halocha allows them to eat us.
“Coffee Addict, those classifications of the four levels of material are not in the Torah and so they can’t have a bearing on Halachah.“
What do you define as the “Torah”?
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