Rambam Mishnah Torah

This chapter explains the prohibition of a limb from a living animal (ever min hachai): which limbs it includes, the kezayis that makes one liable, loose and broken limbs, a limb of a fetus that came out of the womb, and the fetus found inside a slaughtered animal.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/002/005

This chapter explains the prohibitions of neveilah and tereifah and the difference between them, the convulsive movement required when slaughtering a critically ill animal, which prohibitions combine to make a kezayis, which skins count as meat, and the law of the ox sentenced to stoning.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/002/004

This chapter explains that food coming from a forbidden species is itself forbidden, including milk and eggs, the status of human milk and of honey, the milk, cheese and butter of non-Jews, the signs of eggs of pure and impure birds and fish, and when fish, brine and fish pieces may be bought.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/002/003

This chapter explains the prohibitions and lashes for eating impure animals, birds and fish, the kinds of creeping creature of the land, air and water, worms in fruit and water, the kezayis and lentil measures, eating a whole creature of any size, and how one creature can carry several sets of lashes.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/002/002

This chapter lists the twenty-eight mitzvos of the Laws of Forbidden Foods and explains the signs that distinguish pure from impure domestic and wild animals, birds, locusts and fish, how to check an unfamiliar animal, the twenty-four forbidden species of bird, and when a hunter's tradition is relied on.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/002/001

This chapter explains the prohibition of seclusion and its decrees, with whom and in what circumstances seclusion is permitted, related precautions against suspicion, why the arayos are the hardest part of the Torah to keep, and how a person subdues his inclination through holiness and words of Torah.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/001/022

This chapter explains the prohibition of closeness to the arayos and of gazing and levity, proper conduct and holiness in marital relations, the prohibition of emitting seed in vain and of dwelling on improper thoughts, the duty to marry off one's children, and whom a person should and should not marry.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/001/021

This chapter explains the difference between a kohen by presumption and one of established lineage, what evidence raises a person to each, when a person's own word is believed, the laws of a doubtful kohen and of children who became mixed up, and why a child of promiscuity is excluded from the kehunah.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/001/020

This chapter explains who is a chalalah and a chalal, the three kinds of chalalim, a daughter of converts and the kehunah, how lineage follows the father, the signs of a flawed lineage, and how a family against which a challenge was raised is investigated before marrying into it.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/001/019

This chapter explains who is a zonah forbidden to a kohen, the wife of a kohen who was violated, the sotah who did not drink, an unmarried woman who says she was with a fit man, the captive woman and who may testify for her, and the women of a conquered city.

https://www.torahrecordings.com/rambam_mishneh_torah/005/001/018