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Chicken and eggs…together?

The Rav Name: Rabbi Yitzchak Arad

My question is can you eat a piece of chicken with two eggs? It’s kind of like the same thing as milk and steak.



Shalom and thank you for your question! You ask a question which shows sensitivity. There is no prohibition in Halacha, Jewish law, regarding eating chicken and eggs together,  regardless of quantity.

I can see however, why you would suspect there might be. Nevertheless,  the lesson of mercy conveyed by the prohibition against killing a calf on the same day as its mother, and not cooking meat and milk together is apparently enough.

Eggs in their initial stage by the way, are not a fetus. Many people think that the yolk is the beginning of a chick but this is not the case. There is in fact a snall cell which develops when heated, and this can be by means of an incubator as much as a live hen… The yolk becomes the nutrients for the chick when it develops.



All this means that the egg we eat is not a ‘living being’.


Having said that, it must be pointed out that although as I mentioned above in the example of meat and milk, commentaries do point out a lesson of mercy,  ultimately we keep the laws of the Torah as a Divine pact. It is God’s Divine will and wisdom and we trust it, being that we are finite beings and G-d is infinite.



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