Fables of the Talmud and the Midrash

Preliminary Study, Selection, and Notes: Manes Kogan
Design and Illustrations: Marcelo Ferder
English Translation: Sandy Berkofsky-Santana

 
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Fable 19: The Hypocritical Pig

The pig, when it stretches out to rest, shows its cloven hooves as if to say, “I am pure!” (A cloven hoof is the mark of a kosher—pure—animal, which the pig is not, because it does not chew its cud. (See Leviticus 11:7)

--Genesis Rabbah 65:1

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