Quotation for Shabbat 215:3
מיתיבי רבי זירא (ויקרא א, יז) בכנפיו להכשיר את העור ואי ס"ד עור הוא היכי מרבי ליה קרא א"ל אביי עור הוא ורחמנא רבייה
this is to teach that the skin is fit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To be burnt on the altar, it being unnecessary to skin the bird first. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> Now if you think that it is [a separate] skin, how can Scripture include it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It should be the same as the skin of all animal, which must be first removed, v. 6. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> — Said Abaye to him, it is [indeed a separate] skin, but the Divine Law includes it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This verse shows that the skin of a bird is not the same as that of an animal. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Mishnah Kelim
The following vessels protect their contents when they have a tightly fitting cover: those made of cattle dung, of stone, of clay, of earthenware, of sodium carbonate, of the bones of a fish or of its skin, or of the bones of any animal of the sea or of its skin, and wooden vessels that are always clean. They protect whether the covers close their mouths or their sides, whether they stand on their bottoms or lean on their sides. If they were turned over with their mouths downwards they afford protection to all that is beneath them to the nethermost deep. Rabbi Eliezer declares this unclean. These protect everything, except that an earthen vessel protects only foods, liquids and earthen vessels.
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