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Hullin 58: Mosquito Years
What is the status of a treyfa animal after it has been declared a treyfa? For example if a hen is deemed a treyfa, what is the story with her eggs, for…
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Hullin 57: Scientific Experiments - Talmud Style: No King at the Ant Hill
If a bird has a dislocated femur, the bird is nonetheless kosher. But it seems that the same sage said that it was not kosher - in Pompedita, leading to an…
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Hullin 56: The Red Heart, Gizzard, and Liver
2 mishanyot! 1 - A list of injuries or damage that render birds to be treyfot -- including a weasel that hits the bird on its head. With an apparent 24-hour…
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Hullin 55: You Can't Compare Treyfa with Trefya
What happens when there are injuries or defects in the lung can be benign when it's in the kidney. But when it's fine in the lung, does that mean it's…
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Hullin 54: The Existential Value of a Kurdish Dinar
Investigating (final?) details about what makes an animal a treyfa - in terms of injuries. Is there a rule of thumb, or is the list of what makes an animal a…
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Hullin 53: Clawed and Kosher - Maybe
When a kosher animal is clawed by a non-kosher animal - when do we take it as a given that it will be considered a treyfa -- or really to the contrary? What if…
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Hullin 52: Dislocations
A majority of broken ribs -- seems to be a treyfa. But what is the way in which they were broken? Does having been attached to the vertabrae make the process…
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Hullin 51: Falling from a Roof, Falling from the Air
If/when an animal falls from a roof -- if it breaks its limbs, the question shifts to focus on whether the injury is common (like rheumatism) or unusual, like…
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Hullin 50: Confusing Intestines
Perforated intestines are likely to be sealed by internal mucous, which would leave the animal kosher. The Gemara then traces Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel's…
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Hullin 49: Brine and Honey as Neutralizing Venom
If there's a perforation in the 4th stomach of a cow, the kohanim were accustomed to treat it as permitted. Which leads to lots of discussion and tracing back…
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Hullin 48: The Local Rabbi Is Far Away
The unusual kashrut halakhic question that was brought from Asia Minor to the land of Israel for an answer. And they repeated the question: whether an animal…
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Hullin 47: The Telling Colors of Blood
Rulings by Rava: Issues of the lungs, specifically with regard to the lobes. Plus, Meimar, who answers the halakhic questions differently from Rava. Until the…
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Hullin 46: Frictionless Kashrut
The Gemara moves on to the mishnah''s case of an animal that was missing a liver -- which is surely a treyfa -- but what if an olive's worth remained? That…
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Hullin 45: Talmudic Anatomy - Animals Edition
A review of injuries to various body parts and the implications for a kosher shechitah. Note the sages' awareness of the animals' anatomy. After all, they did…
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Hullin 44: Resolved by a Bat Kol/Heavenly Voice (Or Not)
An investigation into an acceptance of the stringencies of Rav and the stringencies of Shmuel when it comes to the details of shechitah, including the location…
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Hullin 43: Even for Unusual Healing, Don't Rely on Miracles
Ulla says that there 8 groups of treyfot that were told to Moses at Sinai - that is, the categories. Plus a focus on a punctured gallbladder, among other…
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Hullin 42: When Treyf Is Treyf
Chapter 3! A focus on the slaughtering of kosher animals -- and what makes an animal kosher (as compared to a treyfa, which is a kosher kind of animal, but…
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Hullin 41: Shechitah on a Ship
2 mishnayot! The first one includes the details about a non-believing Jew who participates in shechitah, and whether that shechitah would be kosher. And the…
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Hullin 40: Not in the Name of the Mountain, the River, the Sea!
A new mishnah! One who slaughters an animal in the name of worship of natural bodies (mountains, rivers, seas, etc.), then the slaughtering is not kosher…
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Hullin 39: Pigul, Divorce, Slaves, and Their Parallels to Shechitah
If one slaughters an animal with intent to use the blood for idolatrous purposes, is the rest of the animal forbidden for any benefit or not? Yes, it's a…
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Hullin 38: When an Animal Wiggles Its Ears
An animal that is close to death demonstrates its vitality by some form of movement. Of course, the degree and nature of movement is subject to dispute. Also…
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Hullin 37: At Death's Door (before Shechitah)
A new mishnah! Establishing the category of an animal that is close to death (misukenet) -- in contrast to a treyfa, where it becomes clear that the animal had…
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Hullin 36: What Resh Lakish Knew
Another baraita on the impact of blood on - in this case, a gourd of terumah - in terms of making it susceptible to impurity. Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and Rabbi…
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Hullin 35: Susceptibility to Impurity
A case of a person who is eating non-sacred food at the level of purity of sacrificial food - which doesn't really give off that impurity to the next level…
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Hullin 34: How Impure Is Your Meat?
More on how to understand the mishnah -- and whether the level of sanctity raised there is potentially really that of terumah, or perhaps that of sacrificial…
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Hullin 33: Impure Hands, More and Less
A new mishnah! What happens if the animal doesn't bleed at the time of shechitah? Apparently, that's a kosher shechitah. And one's impure hands won't render…
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Hullin 32: Invalid Shechitah
2 mishnayot! 1 - A person is slaughtering an animal and the knife falls and he picks it up to complete the slaughtering... as long as the shechitah is…
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Hullin 31: The Question of Intent - Again
A new mishnah! In the case of a knife fell and slaughtered the animal officially correctly, the shechitah is not actually kosher because a person must be…
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Hullin 30: The Many Paths to Shechitah
If there's more than one incision in the pipe, can that be kosher shechitah? It's a machloket. What about 2 people holding the knife for one animal's…
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Hullin 29: The Impact of the Collective on 50/50
More on the question of when a siman is cut precisely halfway across - is that 50/50 considered the majority or not? (it's still a machloket). With the…
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Hullin 28: Making the Best of an Imprecise Mechanism
On the bird's "one siman" being severed, does it make a difference which of the esophagus or the trachea is cut? It's a machloket, whether "either one" is…
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Hullin 27: Ritual Slaughtering
Chapter 2! A new mishnah... On slaughtering a "bird," where cutting one "siman" (windpipe or gullet) is sufficient for kosher shechitah, or an "animal" - that…
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Hullin 26: Servitude, Seduction, Refusal, Halitzah, and Havdalah
Another 2 mishnayot: 1 - In the case of a girl who's to be sold to be a servant, if she is sold, then her father would not receive a fine in the event of her…
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Hullin 25: Snippets of Caveats
2 small mishnayot: 1. On vessels of wood and metal, how they each have that which is stringent and that which is lenient, as compared to the other. 2. On…
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Hullin 24: Staying Youthful by Standing on One Foot
2 tiny mishnayot: 1 - There is that which is problematic for kohanim - to do the Temple service (namely blemishes) - that are not a problem for levi'im…
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Hullin 23: In Between
One who takes an oath to offer a burnt offering of a ram -- that is, at least 13 months old -- or a lamb -- 12 months, and then offers a "palgeis" -- the…
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Hullin 22: Doves and Young Pigeons
A new mishnah! On bird offerings - and at what age they are suitable for offerings, depending on whether they are "doves" or "pigeons." What about the…
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Hullin 21: Imparting Impurity from the Death Throes
If a neckbone of person were person - in parallel to the bird's neck the other day - the question arises as to whether or when the status of impurity kicks in…
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Hullin 20: The Mitzvah of Melikah
Diving into the details of melikah -- specifically the process, and the debated points of that process. Also, some ways in which melikah is different from…
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Hullin 19: When the Animal's Life Departs
A descriptive daf... of details of slaughtering. That is, cutting the trachea in ways that are not obviously kosher, but may be so, and that leads to disputes…
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Hullin 18: Serration, Cartilage, and the Stringencies of Babylonia
In the case of a person who doesn't send his knife to be approved by a Torah scholar, the shochet should be ostracized or, alternatively, removed from his…
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Hullin 17: Knives Out
On the phrasing of everyone can slaughter, everywhere and when, and with anything that can do proper slaughter (for example, a shard of glass). The Gemara…
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Hullin 16: Machine Shechitah
What if one accomplishes shechitah by means of a mechanism that slaughters the animal - is that shechitah kosher? The answer lies in how much human involvement…
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Hullin 15: Shechting and Cooking on Shabbat: A Decree against Temptation
More on Hilkhot Shabbat - with a baraita that connects between Hullin and Shabbat. One who cooks on Shabbat without intent, one can eat that food (though the…
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Hullin 14: What Is the Purpose of Animals?
A new mishnah (a tiny one)! One who slaughters an animal on Shabbat or Yom Kippur is liable for a death sentence, but the shechitah itself is kosher. But that…
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Hullin 13: What Isn't a Good Shechitah
A case where one brings produce to the roof of a building to keep it away from insects, but it gets wet from dew, which makes the produce eligible to become…
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Hullin 12: Can You Trust the Shochet?
Do you need to see the entire process of shechitah to be able to trust that it was done properly? The Gemara has a case that does require one to see the…
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Hullin 11: Majority Rules
A quantifiable majority determines the outcome of an unknown, as per the biblical verse: "Follow the majority." But with an unquantifiable majority - what is…
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Hullin 10: The Possibly Non-Kosher Shechitah of 13 Animals
Given that the knife for shechitah cannot be notched, there was an event when a knife was discovered to be notched after it was used to slaughter 13 animals…
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Hullin 9: Presumptions, Prohibitions, and Danger
A Torah scholar must learn 3 skills: writing, kosher slaughtering, and circumcision. And 3 additional things are subject to dispute - whether they are skills…
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Hullin 8: Kosher Shechitah
If you heat a knife to white-hot, the shechitah done with that knife is kosher, because it was already sharp enough before it was hot. The concern is whether…
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Hullin 7: A Righteous Donkey (and Animals of the Righteous)
Does produce from Beit She'an need tithing? How is this even a question - Beit She'an is clearly part of the land of Israel. Note the Gemara's initial focus on…
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Hullin 6: Who Is an Ignoramus? One Who Does Not Know Much
A story involving R. Asi and R. Zeira about eggs that were cooked on wine - did that combination carry a risk of "demai" (possibly untithed produce)? Where…
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Hullin 5: God Is Looking Out for You (Or: Elijah and the Ravens)
On the way Yehoshafat stuck by Achav, even when it came to the reliability of his shechitah, despite Achav being guilty of worshipping idols. Note the…
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Hullin 4: Can We Trust Jezebel's Kashrut?
If one finds a string of birds in the possession of a Kuti, there are various ways of increasing rigor to test whether the Kuti had done the slaughtering…
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Hullin 3: Kosher Slaughter - What's Ideal? What Works Anyway?
More on the contradiction in the first mishnah of the tractate, with attempts to determine what caveat works for the distinction between the ideal…
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Hullin 2: Everyone Can Shecht, Except for Those Who Should Not
An introduction to Hullin, including the meaning of the term and the likely original title of the tractate. Also, details of how to manage ritual slaughter…
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Menahot 110: Is Torah Study More Valuable Than Temple Sacrifice?
The Gemara picks up on yesterday's mention of King Hizkiyahu, one of the few truly righteous kings of Israel, and how he not only was a good example among…
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Menahot 109: The Temple of Onias
A new mishnah! One who makes a vow to bring an offering must do so in the Temple in Jerusalem (as compared to local personal offerings)... and also as compared…
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Menahot 108: Keeping Track of What You've Vowed to Sacrifice
More on the collection horns - and why there were 6 of them. Plus, the case of an animal that has been dedicated as an offering and then it becomes blemished…