Talmud for Pesachim 147:5
מתני' דלא כרבי יהודה דתניא רבי יהודה אומר כשם ששפוד של עץ אינו נשרף כך שפוד של מתכת אינו מרתיח אמרו לו זה חם מקצתו חם כולו וזה חם מקצתו אינו חם כולו:
it exudes water, so that it is like boiled. Then let us bring [a spit] of the oak tree, the carob tree or the sycamore tree? - Because it has knots it exudes water. [But the wood] of the pomegranate tree too has knots? - Its knots are smooth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence they do not exude sap.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim
It was stated4Tosephta 5:8; Babli 74a. in the name of Rebbi Jehudah: He roasts it on a metal spit. They said to him, is it not hot and heats5Then the inner parts of the lamb are cooked by the heat of the spit, not roasted by the fire outside; cf. Halakhah 2.? He said to them, just as the wooden one is not burned, so the metal one does not heat. They said to him, wood is not comparable to metal, for wood, if it is hot somewhere, is not hot everywhere, but metal if hot somewhere is hot everywhere.
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