Daf Yomi: Chullin 66 | Rabbi Shmuel Silber

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Shim and Maxine Miller Gold of We all those who need together with continue to look after our brothers and sisters allow our holy soldiers to be successful and it should be a week of that. Let us we have a lot to do today. What a great daff yesterday. Today's daf is v 66 and we are literally starting at the top of the daf al. So remember again we are in the al. So remember again we are in the midst of the riveting sa of grasshoppers. Whoever knew that grasshoppers could be so exciting but alas they can remember again just reorient ourselves. The Mishna introduced us that kosher grasshoppers have we'll call four potentially five kosher simanim. The four that everybody seems to agree on is four legs, four points, two jumping legs, wings that cover both of the length and the circumference of the body. And then Mish Rabiosi also added in that they have to be known as because Rabiosi's model be known as because Rabiosi's model ultimately although when you look at the Pak one could have thought that is actually a type of grasshopper. Rabio more sees it as a statement or a name of a category of kosher grasshoppers that goes ahead and includes all of the other types of kosher grasshoppers as well. Okay. So we'll say so then what's interesting about the grasshopper is that the Torah goes out of its way to list the series of grasshoppers, right? The Torah says

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1. 1:47Shim and Maxine Miller Gold of We all those who need together with continue to look…
2. 6:56all-inclusive one the more specific one. Now what do we have in the BL and the…
3. 12:39those four categories the amongst the four categories are the four the four signs of the…
4. 17:48rashon. The goal which is the biblical name was colloquially known as the nepole. So that's…
5. 23:26you are consuming as well say the notion of jumping feet is such a tremendous powerful…
6. 29:10created with like this slimy exterior. So, it slides against the rocks. So this came up…
7. 34:18have to look for? Scales. Because any fish that has scales by definition has fins as…
8. 39:59me a rule that if it has scales that by definition have fins that by definition…
9. 45:06because all the Torah could have said ultimately was kasaskes scales. And I know that every…
10. 50:45saying to teach you that if you go ahead and you eat a non-coser fish without…

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