Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quotation for Yoma 150:13

ר"א בן פרטא אומר אף דברים שתגרי אומות העולם מוכרין להן מן מפיגן אלא מה אני מקיים ויתד תהיה לך על אזניך לאחר שסרחו אמר הקב"ה אני אמרתי יהיו כמלאכי השרת עכשיו אני מטריח אותם שלש פרסאות

A fine scale-like thing [mehuspas];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is a play on 'mah', 'melt', and 'pas', 'palm'.');"><sup>23</sup></span> Resh Lakish said: It is something that melts on the wrist [palm] of the hand.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is a play on 'mah', 'melt', and 'pas', 'palm'.');"><sup>23</sup></span> R'Johanan said: [It means] something which is absorbed by the two hundred and forty-eight parts [of the human body].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The numerical value of 'Mehuspas': Mem = 40, heth = 8, samek =60, pe =80 and samek = 60, together 248. V. Mak., Sonc. ed., p. 169, n. 5.');"><sup>24</sup></span>

Sifrei Devarim

R. Elazar Hakappar says: Now what did we learn from deer and hart? It came (ostensibly) to teach, but it (in the end) it was found to be taught, viz.: Just as a beast (must be slaughtered) through shechitah, so, an animal (e.g., deer and hart), through shechitah, (but a bird [must be slaughtered through shechitah] only by ordinance of the scribes). Rebbi says: "as He commanded you" (Ibid. 21) apprises us that Moses was commanded as to gullet and windpipe (as being the loci of shechitah) and as to the (cutting of) the major portion of one (of these being the criterion for shechitah) in a bird and of both, in a beast.
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