Chullin 191
ובני אדם איך מותרין בנשותיהן בלילה
Isaac, son of R'Mesharsheya said: You may know it from this too; for if two witnesses were to come and say: 'So-and-so who has this or that distinguishing mark killed a person',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These witnesses do not claim to know the murderer except that he had certain distinguishing marks.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
פלניא דהאי סימניה והאי סימניה קטל נפשא לא קטלינן ליה
<big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>WHEN A PERSON REMOVES THE SCIATIC NERVE HE MUST REMOVE ALL OF IT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the view of R. Meir, supra 92b, that one must follow up the tracks of the nerve in all its ramifications.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
ואילו אמרי
R'JUDAH SAYS, ONLY SO MUCH AS IS NECESSARY TO FULFIL THE PRECEPT OF REMOVING IT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is sufficient if one removes the upper part of the nerve, i.e., that part which is visible at the hip-joint.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
אמר רב אשי
IF HE ATE THE WHOLE OF IT AND IT WAS NOT AS MUCH AS AN OLIVE'S BULK, HE IS NEVERTHELESS LIABLE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Although the minimum quantity for constituting eating is an olive's bulk, where the thing prohibited by the Torah is in its entirety less than the size of an olive, e.g., an ant, one incurs the penalty for eating the whole of it.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
קרייה לפלניא דהאי סימניה והאי סימניה ספק ידע ליה ספק לא ידע ליה
R'JUDAH SAYS, HE HAS INCURRED ONLY FORTY STRIPES.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the Prohibition according to R. Judah applies only to one thigh, the right thigh.');"><sup>6</sup></span>
ואילו אית ליה טביעות עינא בגויה כי חזי ליה ידע ליה:
<big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Bar Piuli was standing in the presence of Samuel and was porging<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., removing the sciatic nerve from the thigh.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
אינו סופג אלא ארבעים:
If so, according to whose view was he [Bar Piuli] taught this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he who taught him according to whose view did he teach him'? For it is clear that the whole of the nerve must be removed if only by Rabbinic injunction. The question therefore is: Whose view did Bar Piuli adopt by cutting away only the surface?');"><sup>8</sup></span>
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> בר פיולי הוה קאי קמיה דשמואל וקא מנקר אטמא הוה קא גאים ליה
- R'Shesheth therefore said: That part which Bar Piuli had removed, is [according to R'Meir]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So MS.M., and also according to Bah's gloss. This is also the view of R. Judah.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
א"ל
forbidden by the Torah, but that part which he did not remove, is forbidden Rabbinically, only according to R'Meir, for according to R'Judah it is permitted even Rabbinically.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that Bar Piuli acted entirely in accordance with R. Judah's view.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
חות ביה טפי
IF A PERSON ATE AN OLIVE'S BULK OF THE SCIATIC NERVE etc. Samuel said: The Torah forbade only that part [of the nerve] which is on the spoon,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The muscles at the proximal end of the thigh are rounded and convex like the back of a spoon. Only that part of the sciatic nerve which runs in these muscles, says Samuel, is prohibited.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
לא תירתת דאורי לך כרבי יהודה אורי לך
What is the reason of the Rabbis? - Because it is a complete entity in itself.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And this was prohibited by the Torah even though the whole of it is not as large as an olive.');"><sup>13</sup></span>