Chullin 62b

חולין ס״ב ע״ב

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Topic

Bird species and names: the תסיל, the צוצייני doves and names with an added description (שם לווי), and a series of rulings on kosher, forbidden, and doubtful grasshoppers and birds.

Overview

The גמרא first asks why a משנה about מי חטאת names only the יונה as an exception and not the תסיל. רבי זירא answers that the תסיל spits water back and the יונה does not. Next, רב יהודה rules that the צוצייני doves may be brought on the מזבח. A משנה about אזוב seems to disqualify anything with an added name, and אביי and רבא each answer this. Then come rulings on which grasshoppers and birds are kosher, many with memory signs. רב אסי lists eight doubtful birds whose gizzard peels only with a knife, and the גמרא contrasts them with a duck whose gizzard peeled by hand after softening in the sun. Later rulings deal with the swamp rooster and swamp hen, the מרדו, and birds named after wicked people or wine. שמואל's last ruling continues on the next amud.

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The steps (22)

1. ChallengeWhy doesn't the משנה list the תסיל next to the pigeon?
2. ResolutionThe תסיל sips but spits some back
3. StatementThe צוצייני doves may be sacrificed
4. ChallengeChallenge: a name with an added description is disqualified
5. Resolutionאביי: only names changed before מתן תורה count
6. Resolutionרבא: locally they are just called doves
7. StatementGrasshoppers from shrubs are kosher, from cabbages are not
8. StatementEating the forbidden grasshoppers earns lashes
9. Statementצרדא permitted, ברדא forbidden, מרדא uncertain
10. StatementEight birds that are a doubt
11. QuestionWhy are these birds a doubt?
12. ResponseTheir gizzard peels only with a knife
13. ChallengeThe duck in מר שמואל's house
14. ResolutionBy hand versus only with a knife
15. StatementThe swamp rooster is the מרדו
16. StatementSwamp rooster forbidden, swamp hen permitted
17. Statementמרימר forbids the swamp hen too
18. Statementשבור אנדרפטא permitted, פירוז אנדרפטא forbidden
19. Statementבוניא permitted, פרוא forbidden
20. StatementThe reclining מרדו is permitted, the bowing מרדו is forbidden
21. StatementThe 'wine drinker' bird is forbidden
22. StatementThe 'wine pourer' bird is also forbidden