Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 89:58
זיל בתר רובא דאינשי
He replied to him: He informs us of the following as it was taught: If a person is defective [in the number of joints], having only two hundred,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A man born with two fingers missing on each hand and two toes on each leg i.e., eight members. Now since every finger has six bones, this makes altogether a total of forty-eight joints of which this man is short. Thus he has only two hundred joints of the two hundred and forty-eight which the human body contains.');"><sup>34</sup></span>
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