1)

What is this Pasuk coming to teach us?

1.

Rashi (citing the Sifra): It teaches us that someone who eats the Neveilah of a Tahor (Kasher) bird becomes Tamei, and is forbidden to eat Kodshim (or to enter the Beis-Hamikdash). 1

2.

Ramban, Moshav Zekenim, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It is a warning against eating Neveilos (animals that died without Shechitah) and T'reifos 2 (they were mortally injured) - by a lion or a bear. He will become Tamei (through moving or touching them) and forbidden to eat Kodshim until the night after he Tovels.

3.

Rashbam: It teaches us that a Kohen is forbidden to eat the Nieveilah of a Tamei bird. 3

1

Refer to 11:40:1:1. See also Ramban, end of Dibur.

2

Ramban and Moshav Zekenim: The Torah discusses eating them because people are prone to eat them, whereas it warns aginst touching Sheratzim, because they disgust people, and are not normally eaten.

3

Refer to 22:8:2:1.

2)

Having already taught us this Halachah (11:39), why does the Torah repeat it here?

1.

Rashbam: Bearing in mind that the Torah is speaking here to the Kohanim, it teaches them that, even though they are permitted to eat a Chatas ha'Of on which Melikah was performed (and which is therefore technically a Neveilah), they are not permitted to eat any other form of Neveilah. 1

1

Refer to 17:15:1:1 & 17:15:2:1.

3)

Why does the Torah add the word "Letam'ah bah"?

1.

Rashi (in 11:40): To preclude someone who eats Neveilah 1 from being Metamei his clothes. 2

1

Rashi (Ibid): If for example, someone stuffs a piece of Neveilah into his throat, in which case, he did not touch it.

2

Rashi (Ibid.): Unless he carries it.

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