The prohibition against eating blood

The prohibition against meilah [illegal use of sanctified items], as it applies to blood

Whether this prohibition is valid beyond the time of the Temple: Kiddushin 37b

Application of this prohibition to both offerings and non-offerings: Keritot 22a

Prohibition against consumption: Pesachim 22a

Prohibition against any benefit: Pesachim 22a

Being careful to slice and drain the veins of a bird after slaughter: Berachot 8b

Whether the biblical prohibition is only on the blood with which life leaves [dam hanefesh], not with blood squeezed from the body later [dam hatamtzit]: Pesachim 16b, 65a; Zevachim 35a; Keritot 4b, 20b, 22a

Defining the "blood of life [dam hanefesh]" based on its color and the strength of its flow: Keritot 22a

Whether the biblical prohibition includes blood that comes from a limb of the animal, other than the throat: Keritot 4b

Whether the biblical prohibition includes blood from a live animal, as in that released by blood-letting: Pesachim 22b; Keritot 20b

Whether the biblical prohibition includes blood that was on the ground and was covered, and was then uncovered: Keritot 4b

Lashes for consuming blood: Makkot 13a; Keritot 4b

Applying the penalty of kareit [Divine excommunication] or bringing a korban chatat [sin offering] for this sin: Keritot 2a

Liability for blood from shechitah: Keritot 20b

Liability for blood from non-shechitah killing of an animal: Keritot 20b

Liability for blood from a non-kosher animal: Keritot 4b

Liability for blood from the spleen or heart: Keritot 20b, 21b-22a

How to remove blood from the heart of an animal, before eating the heart: Keritot 22a

Differentiating between blood of the heart muscle and blood held in the heart: Keritot 22a

Liability for blood from the kidneys: Keritot 21b-22a

Liability for blood from general organs of the body ["eivarim"]: Keritot 21b-22a

Liability for blood from testicles, or eggs: Keritot 20b-21a [see Rashi Keritot 20b "dam beitzim"]

Liability for blood from kosher locusts: Keritot 20b-21a, 21b

Liability for blood from fish: Keritot 20b-21a, 21b

Liability for blood from a fish, where the blood has been collected in a receptacle: Keritot 21b

Liability for blood from a sheretz [as blood or as part of a sheretz]: Keritot 4b, 20b-21a, 21b-22a

Liability for blood from kodashim [sanctified animals]: Keritot 4b

Liability for blood from people: Ketuvot 60a; Keritot 20b-21a, 21b-22a

Liability for blood which emerges from one's mouth and gets on one's food: Ketuvot 60a; Keritot 21b-22a

Liability for swallowing blood which emerges from a wound in one's mouth: Ketuvot 60a; Keritot 21b-22a

Liability for blood from a koy: Yoma 74a-b; Keritot 21a

Liability for blood which is normally permissible, because of a "marit ayin" concern that one who sees it might not realize it is of a permissible variety - such as fish blood without scales present: Keritot 21b

Liability for blood from an animal that was consecrated, blemished and then redeemed: Bechorot 15a

A special trait of piety [mitzvat parush] in staying away from certain kinds of blood which might otherwise be permitted: Keritot 21b-22a

If there is reward for avoiding blood, which is disgusting, how much more reward must there be for avoiding those transgressions which a person desires!: Makkot 23b



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