Endnote 18 – “You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”

Philo of Alexandria, Clement of Alexandria, Ibn Ezra and Rashbam are among those who think that this humanitarian motive explains the prohibition. For modern support, see Menahem Haran, “Seething a Kid in its Mother’s Milk,” Journal of Semitic Studies (JSS) 30:23–35 (1979); H. Louis Ginsberg, The Israelian Heritage of Judaism (1982), p. 52, note 69; Umberto Cassuto, “A Kid in Milk,” Encyclopaedia Biblica 2:436–37 (1954) (in Hebrew).