Meat and Milk Neveila

Q. Does the prohibition of cooking milk and meat apply to a neveila (animal that was not properly slaughtered)?

A. In a previous Halacha Yomis, we noted that the Rambam permits deriving benefit from a neveila that was cooked with milk. Since it is forbidden to eat unslaughtered meat because of the prohibition of neveila (a carcass of a dead animal), cooking a neveila in milk does not add a second prohibition of basar b’chalav because ain issur chal al issur. Furthermore, the Rambam maintains that the prohibitions of eating and deriving benefit from milk and meat are linked to each other. Where there is no restriction to eat basar b’cholov (as is the case with a neveila), there is also no restriction to derive benefit. However, the Dagul Merevava (YD 87:3) writes that the leniency of the Rambam is limited to deriving benefit from the mixture but the Rambam agrees that it is forbidden to cook neveila with milk, as cooking is an independent restriction.

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