After declaring "Basar b'Nafsho" (Ever Min ha'Chai) forbidden, why does the Torah add the word "Damo"?
Rashi and Seforno: To forbid the blood of a live animal as well. 1
Ramban: It is the reason that Ever Min ha'Chai is forbidden - because the blood (the Nefesh) is still inside the Basar.
Targum Yonasan: It comes to teach us that before the animal is completely dead (while it quivers), it may not be eaten.
See Ramban, who queries Rashi on Halachic grounds.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
Rashi writes: "As long as its life is in it, do not eat the meat." How are the prohibitions of meat of a living animal, and the blood of a living animal, derived from the verse?
Gur Aryeh: "Basar b'Nafsho" means meat along with its life. 1 "Damo" is a separate clause, "Nor shall you eat blood [along with its life]."
Rashi explains this with the words, "as long as the life is in it" because on a literal level, the Nefesh has come along with the meat, not the meat along with the Nefesh.
