Commentary for Berakhot 121:29
תנו רבנן כליות יועצות לב מבין לשון מחתך פה גומר ושט מכניס ומוציא כל מיני מאכל קנה מוציא קול
Our Rabbis have taught : The reins prompt [the thought], the heart exercises intelligence, the tongue pronounces, the mouth completes [the words]. The gullet lets in and brings out all kinds of food, the windpipe produces voice,
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
"The Talmudic idea is based on the curious physiological notion that the food passed from the oesophagus first into the large intestine where the food was supposed to be crushed as in a mill, and thence only, through various organs, into the stomach proper"; Edersbeim, Life and Times, II. p. 23 n.
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