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Hullin 118: Useful Handles
How handling impure food can become its own issue, and using a handle or an item of protection for the food will have different implications for the impurity…
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Hullin 117: Food Impurities
A new mishnah! Both blood and forbidden fats are prohibited by Torah law, but there are ways in which each is more stringent than the other, and also more…
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Hullin 116: Chicken and Cheese
The distinction between Rabbi Akiva's leniencies regarding cooking undomesticated animals and fowl in milk vs. those of Rabbi Yossi HaGelili's permission and…
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Hullin 115: And... No Benefit from Meat Cooked in Milk, Either
More on the abominable products that are the result of actions that are prohibited -- for example, food that was cooked on shabbat, which violates shabbat and…
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Hullin 114: Mother's Milk
How literal is the Torah's phrasing of "mother's milk"? Does it really mean the milk of the mother of the given animal, or all milk? Clearly, all milk - and…
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Hullin 113: The Soul and the Life Force
Beginning with a mnemonic to help remember the cases that are exceptions -- for example, the way salting (and rinsing, depending on the order and location)…
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Hullin 112: Kutach and Kashering Meat
Can you put a jug of salt alongside a jug of kutch - milk and grain reality....? The Gemara seems to say other substances would not be allowed - and that the…
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Hullin 111: Dairy/Meat Equipment
What if you roast a liver with other meat? Over a fire is acceptable, because the blood would be burned out, but an udder is not, because of the milk being…
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Hullin 110: Udder, Liver, and Common Practice
More on the udder. And the different practices with regard to eating udder, as per different places. Plus, the story of Rami bar Dekuli, who went to Sura from…
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Hullin 109: Yalta's Search for Permitted Meat-and-Milk
When milk flavor is imparted to a plate of meat -- it's prohibited even if the milk flavor would be squeezed out of it. With a 3-way machloket, on the efficacy…
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Hullin 108: The Flavor of Milk
A new mishnah! A drop of milk falls on a piece of meat that is cooking in a pot -- is there enough milk to give over some flavor? Note the Torah-level of…
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Hullin 107: Cleanliness vs. Ritual: Handwashing
More on the laws pertaining to the ritual washing of hands: What if you hold the bread via a cloth or gloves or some such and don't wash? What if the reason…
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Hullin 106: How Ritual Handwashing Protects
Rav Dimi tells the story of how not washing before the meal in the ceremonial washing that precedes a meal led to a Jew eating pork. Likewise, a story of a…
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Hullin 105: Cheese before Meat
On using bread as a napkin, to wipe your mouth from a given flavor. Also, how long to wait between milk (cheese) and meat -- perhaps no time at all, as it…
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Hullin 104: No Meat and Milk
Chapter 8! And the 3 verses that repeat not to cook a kid in its mother's milk. Also 2 mishnayot. 1 - No meat and milk together, not even on the same table…
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Hullin 103: Already Eaten Food
Finishing chapter 7! But first, a case of several sins in one period of time, including non-kosher meat, and in which it seems that 2 sets of lashes would be…
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Hullin 102: The Noahides and a Limb from a Live Animal
More on the prohibition of eating a limb from a live animal - which applies to everyone, and regardless of whether the animal itself is kosher or non-kosher…
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Hullin 101: The Torah Is Not in Pieces
On the sciatic nerve of the carcass of a kosher animal -- is there a way out of the punishment for the forbidden food? What happens when there's more than one…
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Hullin 100: The Sciatic Nerve, Before Sinai
More on nullifying non-kosher food in a larger amount of kosher food. First, remove the non-kosher food, but what happens if the remnants are giving flavor to…
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Hullin 99: The Taste of the Gid HaNasheh (or lack thereof)
More on nullification of a non-kosher food in the greater quantity of a kosher food. In accord with the view that said 100x more than the non-kosher food was…
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Hullin 98: Counting Eggs
The question of 1 in 60 vs. 1 in 61, and the conundrum of eggs -- where they are all counted, and including in the same food -- depending on the ratio of…
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Hullin 97: A Non-Jewish Chef, a Cow's Udder, and 1/60th of Food
When foods get mingled, and you need to determine whether you can eat the kosher food, or whether the contamination of the non-kosher with the kosher. Plus…
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Hullin 96: The Flavor of the Sciatic Nerve
2 mishnayot! 1 - Which part of the sciatic nerve incurs a violation of the prohibition? And how much would one need to eat to be liable? Including a dispute…
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Hullin 95: Keeping Kosher
The case of meat that is held by a non-Jew: what if it wasn't supervised continually? According to Rav - that's prohibited as a caution against the possibility…
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Hullin 94: False Pretenses and a Town of Kosher Meat
A new mishnah! When a Jew makes a gift or sale of meat to a non-Jew that includes the gid ha-nasheh, because the process of "nikor" hadn't happened…
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Hullin 93: Trustworthy Butchers
If the head of an offering is buried in hot ash to singe off the hair, and if that was in the place of the slaughtering in an upright position, the blood flows…
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Hullin 92: The Righteous Who Uphold the World
First, housekeeping note... Also, 7 interpretations of Yosef and the gifts God gave to the Jewish people. Plus, the 15 pieces of silver that God acquired for…
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Hullin 91: Wrestling with the Angel
The discussion of the gid ha-nasheh leads into some lovely aggadic passages. First of all, did the sciatic nerve have to be in the right thigh to be prohibited…
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Hullin 90: The Very Large Pile of 300 Kor of Ash on the Altar
More on the sciatic nerve -- the prohibition against the "gid ha-nasheh" applies only to the sacrificial animals that are consumed (not a burnt-offering, but a…
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Hullin 89: The Beautiful Blue of the Heavens and the Sea
Beginning with some aggadic material - with Abraham claiming about himself that he is nothing but dust and ashes, and that he and his descendants have 2…
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Hullin 88: Ecological Benefits of Covering the Blood
Blood that splatters and blood that's left on the knife also need to be covered, with a verse to make that point. As long as there's no other blood there at…
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Hullin 87: A Family of Heretics
2 mishnayot! 1 - What if one is obligated to cover the blood after the slaughter of a non-domesticated animal or a bird and does not do it? A passerby who sees…
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Hullin 86: Taking Responsibility for Shechitah
A new mishnah! If a deaf-mute, someone with cognitive impairment, or a minor slaughtered an animal with supervision, then the slaughtering is kosher shechitah…
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Hullin 85: Mitigating Factors to Covering the Blood
A new mishnah! Does the mitzvah of covering the blood apply to an animal that is discovered to be unfit for consumption? Whether because the animal is a treyfa…
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Hullin 84: Don't Eat Too Much Meat
More on covering the blood of non-domesticated animals and birds, and how it applies to those animals that are prepared for it -- which itself requires some…
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Hullin 83: Covering the Blood
4 events of proclaiming the slaughtering of an animal that was sold as well as the offspring, to help the buyers keep the dates straight. All the dates are…
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Hullin 82: Who's Tracking the Animals and Their Offspring?
3 mishnayot on the daf! But first, on Rabbi Yochanan's position, in contrast to that of Resh Lakish, on the "eglah arufah," as listed in the mishnah -- where…
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Hullin 81: Shechitah That Isn't Shechitah
More on the prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day -- in an effort to determine Rav Hamnuna's take on Rabbi Shimon's…
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Hullin 80: When Lashes Are Applied
More on the koy -- whether a male goat and a female deer or a male deer and a female goat. With all the concomitant ramifications. Also, the biblical passage…
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Hullin 79: Horses and Donkeys and Mules - Oh Koy!
The permutations of when a horse and a donkey (male and female and the reverse) mate -- and whether their progeny is allowed to mate. Or are their progeny in…
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Hullin 78: The Mamas, Maybe the Papas, and the Children
Chapter 5! With a focus on the prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day, and with a new mishnah. The mishnah goes through…
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Hullin 77: Skin and Bones
In the case of a bone fracture, as long as the greater portion of the bone is covered by flesh and skin, it is acceptable for consumption. With an apparent…
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Hullin 76: Doh! Even the Sages Realize What They Could Have Said Better
A new mishnah! Handling the back legs of an animal, if a bone is broken, if the leg is intact... then kosher slaughtering renders the animal permitted for…
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Hullin 75: Permitting the Forbidden Fats
The odd case of the entirety of an animal fetus that is permitted for food after its mother is slaughtered in a kosher way - and the entire fetus is permitted…
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Hullin 74: The Sciatic Nerve of the Fetus
Several cases: One who eats the extended limb from the fetus -- with that person get lashes or not, for eating the limb of a live animal? And a source for the…
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Hullin 73: Impurity without Shechitah - Hypothetically Hypothetical Cases
Does a slaughtered animal that is a treyfa transmit impurity? It seems so. For a consecrated animal. At least at the rabbinic level of prohibition. Plus, the…
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Hullin 72: On the Order of Difficult Events
NOTE: Another difficult episode, including mention of fetal death. Rava's understanding of the mishnah - specifically recognizing a different tradition coming…
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Hullin 71: The Very Difficult Question of Fetal Impurity
NOTE: This episode may be emotionally difficult, including the topic of still-births -- animal and human (not together). On the transfer of impurity from the…
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Hullin 70: The Surgical Activity of a Weasel
More on case of the fetus -- when does the principle of "majority" apply to limbs emerging? Or does it ever? When is it considered as if it was born? What if…
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Hullin 69: The Fetus and Its Complications for Slaughtering, Exchange, and the Sanctity of the First-Born
More on a fetus that extends a limb from its mother's womb and brings it back inside. What if that takes place in between the severing of the first "siman" and…
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Hullin 68: The Kosher Fetus
Chapter 4! With a new mishnah. On the case of a female animal that is slaughtered with a fetus in her womb, whether it is discovered after slaughtering or in…
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Hullin 67: More Creepy-Crawlies -- and the Leviathan
Rav Huna says not to pour beer in the night with a filter, lest a creepy crawlie comes outside of the filter and into the beer, which would be a problem to…
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Hullin 66: Spontaneous Generation
Fish that have scales for part of their lives -- are likely to be kosher. But fish that have fins and no scales are not kosher. But if scales are all that…
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Hullin 65: Birds of a Feather Dwell Together
Birds that claw their prey are not kosher, though there are other signs too, of course. Plus, how the bird sits on a line with its "toes" divided across the…
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Hullin 64: Egg Versatility
Eggs! They can bought from anyone, including idolators, without concern that they came via a nevilah or treyfa. The eggs themselves are identifiable as coming…
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Hullin 63: The Torah's Non-Exhaustive List of Non-Kosher Birds
There are 24 non-kosher birds, and there's a long chain of transmission to that effect, but if you count the birds in the Torah, the list in Leviticus has 20…
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Hullin 62: The Common White "Snunit"
The Torah's list of the non-kosher birds includes some modification, "along with its kind." This is true of the "orev," a crow. And also the white "s'nunit."…
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Hullin 61: Is This Bird Kosher?
The Gemara says that the signs for a bird to be kosher aren't explicit in the Torah - except that the Gemara also says that the signs for a bird to be…
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Hullin 60: God's Lion's Roar to Defend the Jewish People
A series of stories about Rabbi Yehoshua ben Haninah interacting with Roman officers, conversing with the Caesar, etc. Some of these stories need unpacking and…
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Hullin 59: The Species the Torah Knows, Including.... a Unicorn?
What are kosher animals? What are non-kosher animals? That is, from the signs listed in the Torah for domesticated and non-domesticated animals -- such as…