Chullin 94a

חולין צ״ד ע״א

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Topic

Sending a thigh with the גיד הנשה to a גוי, and the prohibition of גניבת דעת (misleading people, even a גוי).

Overview

This amud has three parts. It opens by finishing a question about sending a גוי a thigh that still has the גיד הנשה in it: a whole thigh is allowed, but a cut one is not. The גמרא asks how that can be. Where they don't announce non-kosher sales (מקום שאין מכריזין), even a cut thigh should be fine. Where they do announce (מקום שמכריזין), even a whole thigh should be risky. It answers that in the second kind of place, meat cut by a גוי is easy to recognize. In the first kind of place, a cut thigh is banned by a גזירה, or because sending it would deceive the גוי, following שמואל's rule against גניבת דעת even toward a גוי. The גמרא then shows that שמואל's rule was only inferred from a story about a ferryman, and that each version of the story could be read another way. Next come ברייתות about other ways of misleading people: fake invitations, sold barrels, a half-empty jug for a mourner, a sandal from a dead animal, and a wine barrel topped with oil. Two tragic stories show how much harm such things can cause, and the גמרא shows that one whole ברייתא belongs to רבי אליעזר בן יעקב. Finally, a ברייתא returns to the גיד הנשה and to selling non-kosher meat to a גוי. The amud ends just as it begins a rule with two reasons, which are given on the next amud.

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The steps (30)

1. ChallengeIf Jews never buy from the gentile, a cut thigh should be allowed too
2. ChallengeIf Jews do buy from the gentile, even a whole thigh should be forbidden
3. ResolutionThe answer can work in either kind of place
4. ResolutionWhere they announce, a gentile's cutting is easy to recognize
5. ResolutionWhere they don't announce, a cut thigh is banned by decree
6. ResolutionA second answer: sending a cut thigh deceives the גוי
7. Statementשמואל's rule came from a story on a ferry
8. QuestionWhy did שמואל get angry?
9. Responseאביי: he passed off a טרפה chicken as kosher
10. Responseרבא: he served diluted wine in place of strong wine
11. QuestionSo what if the rule was only inferred?
12. ResponseIn אביי's version, שמואל may have been angry for a different reason
13. ResponseIn רבא's version, the anger may have been about disobeying
14. StatementDon't make fake invitations or fake gift offers
15. StatementSold barrels, an empty oil jug, and the honor exception
16. ChallengeBut רב יהודה opened sold barrels for עולא
17. Resolutionרב יהודה told him
18. Resolutionעולא was so dear that רב יהודה would have opened barrels anyway
19. StatementDon't bring a mourner a misleading jug of wine
20. StatementDon't sell a sandal from a dead animal as if it were from a slaughtered one
21. StatementDon't send a wine barrel that looks like oil
22. ProofThe tragic story of the oil-topped barrel
23. StatementGuests may not give the host's food to his children without permission
24. ProofThe tragic story of the three guests
25. StatementThree lives were lost over this
26. QuestionWhat is this statement teaching us?
27. ResponseThe whole ברייתא is רבי אליעזר בן יעקב's
28. StatementSending a thigh: when must the גיד הנשה be removed?
29. StatementTwo reasons not to sell נבילות וטריפות to a גוי
30. StatementDo not ask a gentile to buy meat for you