One of the claims Rabbinic Judaism makes is that Oral Torah contains instructions for how to "properly slaughter" animals. The laws of shechitah are not in the Written Torah, yet one of the proofs for its existence is given from Deuteronomy 12:20-21, which says:
When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want. If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.
This is, in fact, only one of the proof texts that argues for the existence of an Oral Torah.
And yet we read in Exodus 21:28 the following:
If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.
Keeping in mind the well-known Rabbinic principle that Torah doesn't repeat itself needlessly, what is the point of God telling the Israelites that the meat of the stoned bull is not to be eaten?
Furthermore, later in the same chapter it is told that a dead ox will belong to the owner of a pit it has fallen into, or to the owner of a troublesome ox which gored it. What is the point of having a dead ox if one cannot eat it? Is one simply to dispose of the dead ox?
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