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Nachum's avatar

I've always wondered: Are fugu or other pufferfish kosher?

Purely an academic question: No way I'm going to eat one of those.

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Just Curious's avatar

Random correction (if you’ll permit me):

Lipmann was (is?) a kinui for Yom Tov, so R’ Heller’s given name was Yom Tov Lipmann (actually, his given name was Gershon Shaul Yom Tov Lipmann ha-Levi) and his surname was Heller (not Lipmann-Heller).

There was also, for example, a (less famous) Yom Tov Lipmann Muhlhausen (who wrote the controversial Sefer Nitzachon—not to be confused with the Sefer Nitzachon [Yashan, or “Vetus” in Latin] published about 2 centuries earlier—against Christianity) and R’ Yisrael Salanter’s youngest son was a mathematician named Yom Tov Lipmann Lipkin (Salanter’s actual surname was Lipkin; he was called Salanter after the town of Salant in Lithuania).

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