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Daf Yomi: Chullin 65 | Rabbi Shmuel Silber

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Rabbi Shmuel Silber

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[snorts] >> Like the rest of us. All right, so we'll say good morning. Let's begin. For beautiful daf of us say today is daf samech hey, 65. We are picking up at the two dots on samech hey amud aleph, approximately two, not approximately two, four six lines down from the top. Amud aleph column aleph. from the top. Amud aleph column aleph. I want to thank Rav Yudin Newberger for giving the sheer while I was gone. It's good to be back learning with all of you. So let's begin. Amud aleph column aleph. Remember again the Mishnah spoke about the simanim for an oath, the simanim for a bird. So we're going to get into that a little bit more today. The Mishnah spoke about this idea about claws. Everything the the principle kind of mentioned by the Mishnah because as the word is in the Gemara, Torah doesn't really as much give down the simanim of a kosher bird as much as it does give down the as much as it does give down the behaviors of a kosher bird. Or perhaps more appropriately stated, tells us the behaviors of a non-kosher bird. Right? So if a bird is a bird of prey, ultimately again that is a non-kosher bird. The Mishnah then gave us some of the simanim of a bird of prey, which is again when it perches, two claws are in front, two claws are back and that seems to be the siman for how it seizes the prey afterwards. So the Gemara says as follows. Tanyah, Rabi Gamliel omer, doreis v'ochel

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  1. 0:03[snorts] >> Like the rest of us. All right, so we'll say good morning. Let's begin.
  2. 3:39in Rashi. Kolit min ha avir. Rashi says, kisha zarkino When you throw the bird food,
  3. 7:43right thing, we remain unimpacted or or uninfluenced by our surroundings. Simply not true. What goes
  4. 11:19therefore we accept both. In order for the grasshopper to be kosher, so the wings have
  5. 15:26incredible potential. And gives us credit for the potential we have even if it has not
  6. 19:35have multiple subfamilies underneath that Arba. So, watch this. Sa'aba Zegovai. So, we'll say so the
  7. 23:16meaning so I say how do I know that this type of grasshopper will be kosher
  8. 27:25we'll say I will say any locust right, any grasshopper that has four feet, four wings,
  9. 31:03are known in a general sense as a chagav. So that last chagav in the possuk
  10. 35:13have a bald head. Hare khargol the ishlo gabachas. Ultimately again the khargol does have a

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