2,321. A Broken Bone

Maachalos Assuros 5:7

If one shifted an organ inside the animal, crushed it or ground it – for example, if someone crushed an animal’s testes or shifted them from their place – the organ isn’t prohibited under Biblical law. This is because it still has a little life in it. We see this is the case because the affected organ doesn’t decay. Nevertheless, it’s prohibited to eat as a practice accepted by the Jewish people in previous generations because it’s similar to a limb severed from a living animal.

Maachalos Assuros 5:8

Let’s say that an animal breaks a bone. If the flesh or skin covers most of the thickness of the broken bone and most of the circumference of the break, it remains permitted. If the bone pokes out, the limb is prohibited. When the animal or bird is slaughtered, one must sever it where it’s broken and discard that part of the limb; the rest of the limb is permitted. If a bone breaks and the flesh covers most of it but it was crushed or decayed like flesh that a doctor would remove; the flesh is made up of many small patches; there are many small holes in the flesh; the flesh is cracked or punctured like a ring; the flesh is rubbed off from the top until there’s only a peel left; the flesh is decayed from below around a broken bone so that the flesh around the bone doesn’t touch it - all of these are ruled prohibited until the flesh heals. If one ate any of these, he is liable to the penalty of stripes for acting rebelliously.