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Nidah 24
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We recommend using the textual changes suggested by the Bach, Rav B. Rensburg
and the parenthetical marginal notes of the Vilna Shas. This section is
devoted to any *OTHER* changes that we feel ought to be made in Gemara,
Rashi or Tosfos.)
The words "*Mi* she'Yesh Lo"
should be "*u'Mi* she'Yesh Lo" (RASHASH)
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1) [line 3] TIBURO - his navel, belly-button
2) [line 4] TEREIFAH CHAYAH- A Treifah is an animal with one of the 18
signs described in Chulin 42a. There is a Machlokes Tanaim whether an
animal like this can live for twelve months or not.
3) [line 10] SHE'GULGALTO ATUMAH - a fetus with an incomplete skull
4) [line 12] AFKESA D'DIKLA - the part of the palm tree which sarts to
branch outwards
5)a) [line 13] MUSMASIM-[the face is] mashed
b) [line 15] TUCHOS -[the face is] covered over; featureless
6) [line 25] NAFIK L'KIRYASA -they went out to the villages in the
farmlands (to inspect their fields. Rashi Beitzah 9b)
7) [line 34] HA'SHESU'AH - an animal with two backs and two spines. The
Malbim (Vayikra 11:4) and ha'Ksav ve'Hakabalah identify this as the
Tayasau, Pekari; a pig-like animal in South America. It has four stomachs,
chews its cud, and has split hooves. On the middle of its back is a split
the depth of an finger-width, so that it appears as if the back and spine
are separated into two parts
8) [line 36] BERYA B'ALMA - a living animal
9) [line 38] BI'MEI IMO AGMEREI - there is no living animal with two backs
and two spines. Hashem taught Moshe that a mutant embryo found with these
features (in a kosher mother) is Tamei
10) [line 44] SHE'SHEDRASO AKUMAH -the animal which Rebbi Chaninah Ben
Antigonus referred to has a crooked spine. The words "two backs and two
spines" are not to be taken literally.
11a) [line 46] DAKAH - small cattle (such as sheep and goats)
b) [line 46] GASAH - large cattle (such as oxen and donkeys)
24b---------------------------------------24b
14) [line 7] GUF SHE'EINO CHATUCH -a featureless rounded mass without
defined limbs
15) [line 10] MI SHE'RA'UY LI'VRIS SHEMONAH - a child that has the
potential to live eight days
16) [line 27] DEMUS LILIS -a fetus with the form of the night demon Lilith
(with wings)
17) [line 28] MA'ASEH B'SIMONI - It took place in Simoni
18) [line 31] HANHEG BEN ACHICHA U'VO -force your nephew to come with you
19) [line 33] VA'HALO MI'SHEMECHA, AMRAH LI CHAMOSI - But my mother-in-law
told me in your name, *Rebbi Yehoshua*.
20) [line 35] MI'PI HORAH CHANINA -Chaninah ruled according to my teaching
21) [line 37] SHEFIR - the outer skin of an embryo
22) [line 37] GENUNIM - pieces of a variety of colors (which would have
matured into a fetus, had it survived)
23) [line 38] (SHEFIR) MERUKAM - skin that envelops a partially formed
dead fetus
24) [line 38] SANDAL - a flat, fish-shaped abortion
25) [line 38] SHILYA - placenta (common translation); fetal membranes in
which the fetus forms, which are attached to the placenta (RASHI Berachos
4a; TOSFOS Nidah 18a DH Shilya and elsewhere in the Rishonim)
26) [line 39] YAYIN CHAI - pure wine that has not beed diluted with water
27a) [line 43] SECHUYIN -transparent
b) [line 43] MESHUCHIN -rich and healthy (lit.anointed)
29) [line 45] KULIS -thigh bone
30) [line 45] PARSA'OS
- 1 Tefach = 4 Etzba'os
- 1 Amah = 6 Tefachim
- 1 Mil = 2000 Amah
- 1 Parsah = 4 Mil
31) [line 48] NANAS - a midget
32) [last line] ADA DAYLA -Ada, the attendant to the Rabbis
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