2,356. The Biblical Law

Maachalos Assuros 9:2

The Torah doesn’t specifically prohibit eating meat and milk because it prohibits cooking them. The implication is that even cooking them is prohibited, so eating them is certainly not allowed. This is similar to how the Torah doesn’t specifically prohibit relations with one’s daughter, inferring it instead from the prohibition of one’s granddaughter.

Maachalos Assuros 9:3

Under Biblical law, the prohibition is limited to meat from kosher livestock and milk from kosher livestock, implied by Exodus 23:19, “Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.” A kid includes the offspring of cattle, sheep and goats unless a verse explicitly says “a kid of goats.” “A kid in its mother’s milk” is not exclusive; rather, the Torah is speaking illustratively by describing the common situation. As far as meat of a kosher animal cooked in milk of a non-kosher animal or meat of a non-kosher animal cooked in milk of a kosher animal, cooking and deriving benefit are permitted; one is only liable for meat and milk over such a mixture if he eats it.