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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 14:11/אבן עזרא על דברים י״ד:י״א
אכל צפור טהורה תאכלו. הנה צפור שם כלל ותור וגוזל על השני מינין שהם תחת צפור וכן דיה ואיה תחת דאה כי עתה הוסיף לבאר:
1OF ALL CLEAN BIRDS YOU MAY EAT. Tzippor (birds) is a general term.12 The dove and turtledove are subcategories of the general term “birds.”13) divided he not.” The reference there is to the dove and the turtledove mentioned in Gen. 15:10. Scripture can refer to the dove and turtledove by the term tzippor because they are subcategories of tzippor. The dayyah (the kite)14 and the ayyah15, for ayyah is mentioned both here and in Lev. 11:14. (the falcon)16 are subcategories of the da’ah (falcon) (Lev. 11:14),17, pp. 36,37: “We find that the number of prohibited fowl listed in the Torah portion Shemini is 20. However, in the Torah portion Re’eh Anokhi, the number is 21. The answer is found in the science of logic, for da’ah (Lev. 11:14) is a supreme kind that includes both the dayyah and the ra’ah (Deut. 14:13).” as Scripture now elaborates.18 (the kite), the ayyah (the falcon), and the ra’ah (the glede), which are included in the category da’ah (falcon) in Leviticus.