Chullin 117b

חולין קי״ז ע״ב

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Topic

The end of פרק כל הבשר (blood and its exclusions), and the new chapter on attached parts and שומרים for טומאת אוכלין versus טומאת נבלות

Overview

This amud finishes one chapter and begins the next. First the גמרא explains that limiting words in the פסוקים of תרומת הדשן and עגלה ערופה keep their special rule of מעילה from spreading to other cases. Then it explains why three phrases are needed about the blood of קרבנות: each one frees blood from a different prohibition, namely נותר, מעילה, and eating קדשים while טמא. No phrase is needed for פיגול, because blood is itself the מתיר, and פיגול applies only to things that something else permits. Then פרק כל הבשר ends, and a new משנה opens. It teaches that parts attached to meat, like the hide and bones, join with the meat to reach a כביצה for טומאת אוכלין, but not a כזית for טומאת נבלות. The גמרא calls these parts שומרים. It finds the source that they count for light impurity in seeds sown in their shells. It finds the source that they do not count for severe impurity in the word ״בנבלתה״.

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The steps (13)

1. ResolutionLimiting words keep the rule inside these two cases
2. QuestionWhy do we need three phrases about blood?
3. ResponseEach phrase excludes blood from a different prohibition
4. ProofNo verse is needed to exclude blood from פיגול
5. ConclusionHadran — Closing פרק כל הבשר
6. StatementAttached parts join the meat for food impurity, not carcass impurity
7. StatementA twitching slaughtered animal, and the general rule
8. Statementרבי יהודה on gathered scraps of meat
9. StatementThe משנה already teaches a known ברייתא
10. QuestionSource for protective parts counting for light impurity
11. ResponseSeeds are sown in their shells
12. QuestionSource for protective parts not counting for severe impurity
13. Response"Its carcass" excludes hide without meat