Commentary for Yoma 150:4

ותניא רבי אומר (דברים יב, כא) וזבחת כאשר צויתיך מלמד שנצטוה משה על הושט ועל הקנה על רוב אחד בעוף ועל רוב שנים בבהמה אלא מה תלמוד לומר שטוח מלמד שירד להם משטיחין משטיחין

'Spread abroad'; it was taught in the name of R'Joshua B'Karhah: Do not read 'shatoah', but 'shahut' [ritually killed], which would intimate that there came down to Israel together with the manna something requiring ritual killing.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence we infer that quails were of a species that require ritual killing.');">⁸</span> Rabbi replied: So must you infer it from here. Was it not stated before: He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the sea?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LXXVIII, 27. 'Before' means, before this indirect inference there was a clear test to convey this teaching.');">⁹</span>

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