Responsa for Chullin 107:39
רב פפא בר אבא רישבא מחו בכוליא וקטלי אתו לקמיה דרבי אבא אמר להו
OR THE WOMB; IF THE LUNG WAS SHRIVELLED UP BY AN ACT OF GOD.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'by the hands of heaven'. I.e., sclerosis of the lung, here caused by a fright through an act of nature, by thunder or by lightning.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: There is a great principle in the kashrut of animals: "One who adds, will have added life, and one who does not add, let him be gathered away." (Taanit 31a.4) It seems from this that one who is stringent is blessed.2The opposite principle is mentioned in Chullin 54a.10, see Mishneh Torah, Shechitah 10.12
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