Commentary for Chullin 103:25

אלו הן רוב צלעות

Our Rabbis taught: This is meant by 'most of its ribs': Either six on each side [were fractured] or eleven on one side and one on the other side.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The animal has twenty-two large ribs each filled with marrow, eleven ribs on each side. Twelve at least of these ribs must be fractured in order to render the animal trefah.');">¹¹</span>

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