Chullin

and to pour off [the fat].1 But did Samuel really say so?2 Has not Samuel stated that a loaf [of bread] upon which one cut [roast] meat may not be eaten?3 — It is different in that case for it [the blood] exudes only by reason of the pressure of the knife. R. Nahman said: If fish and fowl were salted together, they4 are forbidden. What are the circumstances here? If the vessel [in which they were salted] was not perforated5 then fowl with other fowl would also be forbidden, and if the vessel was perforated then even fish with fowl should be permitted? — Indeed the vessel was perforated, but fish, having a soft skin, very quickly exude [their juice], whereas fowl are constricted and exude [blood] long after the fish have ceased to do so, so that the latter will absorb from [the fowl].6 It happened to R. Mari b. Rahel that ritually slaughtered meat had been salted with trefah meat.7 He came before Raba who sa3 d to him, It is written: The unclean,8 to signify that the juice and the broth and the sediment of these [which are unclean] are forbidden.9 fat can then very easily be poured off into another vessel, and it may be eaten. time to exude the blood and so long as it exudes it will not absorb. ‘unclean’ is superfluous. not absorb blood from the other because each is discharging it, each will however absorb the juice from the other, so that the ritually slaughtered meat would be rendered forbidden on account of the juice of the other.