Commentary for Chullin 137:12

אמר ליה אביי

Is the first organ to be reckoned together with the second in order to render it [the fore-limb] clean so that it be not nebelah or not?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For when cutting the first organ, at which time the limb had not yet protruded, the effect of that cutting was twofold, (a) to render the limb of the foetus clean, and (b) to render it permitted to be eaten; but at the cutting of the second organ, at which time the limb had already protruded, the only possible effect of that cutting was to render _the limb clean (v. infra 72a) . Since the effects produced by the cutting of each organ are not equal, the question arises whether the first organ can be reckoned together with the second in order to produce the effect common to both, viz., that the limb be rendered clean. V. supra p. 176, n. 1.');">⁷</span>

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