According to Halachah 1, which animals are subject to the Biblical prohibition of cheilev with karet liability?
Leviticus 7:23 explicitly limits cheilev liability to shor (ox), kesev (lamb), and ez (goat) — the three kosher domesticated species. Other animals' fat is treated like their meat with no separate cheilev prohibition.
Question 2
Halachah 3 teaches that a fetus found alive in a slaughtered animal is fully subject to the cheilev prohibition when:
Completion of the gestation period — not birth, ground-contact, or separate slaughter — is what triggers the cheilev prohibition on the fetus, as Halachah 4 further confirms by stating 'the months are what cause the prohibition of fat.'
Question 3
Halachah 7 rules that fat completely encased by surrounding meat is permitted. What is the legal basis?
The Torah uses the term 'on the flanks' and 'on the kidneys' — fat that is entirely surrounded and enclosed by meat, invisible until the meat is cut away, does not meet the scriptural definition of 'on.'
Question 4
In Halachah 11, the five strands of tissue in the flanks are forbidden under which prohibition?
All five flank strands — three on the right (each splitting into two) and two on the left (each splitting into three) — are explicitly categorized as cheilev, requiring removal before both boiling and roasting.
Question 5
Halachah 21 states that if a butcher's cleaning leaves an olive-sized portion of forbidden fat, the consequence is:
Because customers rely on the butcher's word regarding fat — and may cook meat without checking — leaving cheilev constitutes placing a stumbling block before the blind. The penalty is makkot mardut plus dismissal, not Torah lashes (as these are likely Rabbinic prohibitions per Halachah 16).