Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Chullin 94 – One Should Be Honest in Thoughts and Actions

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A Jew may send a complete animal thigh to an idolater as a present, and not worry about removing the sciatic sinew. A non-Jew is allowed to ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Chullin 93 – Fat and Blood

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Some of the animal fat is prohibited by the Torah, and some is similar to it and is prohibited by the Sages. For example, the Torah prohibit...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Chullin 92 – Why Did The Angel Need to Go?

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“ Let me leave!” said [the stranger]. “Dawn is breaking. ” “Are you thief or a kidnapper, who fears dawn?” – asked Jacob. “I am an angel, an...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Chullin 91 – The Fight Between Jacob and Angel

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The prohibition of eating the sciatic sinew applies to the sinew of the right thigh and of the left thigh, but Rabbi Yehudah says that it ap...

Chullin 90 – Exaggerations and Hyperbole

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Rabbi Chiya bar Yosef said, “The prohibition of sciatic sinew applies only to sacrifices that are eaten, but not, for example, to a burnt of...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Chullin 89 – Sciatic Nerve

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When the book of Job says that “God suspended the Earth on nothing,” it alludes to that one who remains silent in the time of provocation, l...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Chullin 88 – Materials for Covering the Animal Blood

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If blood from animal slaughter became mixed with water and the amount of water is such that the mixture still looks like blood, one has to c...