Commentary for Chullin 179:11

אמר רבי חייא בר יוסף

Alternatively, you may say that the young of consecrated animals are themselves consecrated only when they come into being.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., as soon as they are born, and not as was assumed previously in the embryonic state. The prohibition of the sciatic nerve, however, came into force earlier when it was a foetus in the womb.');">⁸</span>

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