Chullin

Raba further said: If two cysts are contiguous, no examination thereof can avail.1 If one cyst appears like two,2 we must take a thorn and burst it; if [the mucous] runs from one into the other, it is clear that there is here only one cyst, and it is permitted, but if not, there are here two distinct cysts [which are contiguous], and it is trefah. Raba further said: The lungs have five lobes,3 three on the right side and two on the left [that is, when held up with] the front facing the examiner.4 If there was one lobe missing or one too many, or if the number of lobes was transposed,5 the animal is trefah. There once was brought before Meremar [a pair of lungs with] an additional lobe. R. Aha who was sitting at the entrance [of Meremar's house] asked [the butcher as he was leaving], ‘What did he say about it’? He replied: ‘He declared it to be permitted’. ‘Then take it in to him again’, said R. Aha. Whereupon Meremar said: ‘Go, tell him that sits at the door that the law is not in accordance with Raba in the case of an additional lobe’. This is the rule, however, only if the additional lobe was in line with the other lobes, but if it was interjacent between the lungs, 6 it is trefah. There once was brought before R. Ashi [a pair of lungs that had] an interjacent lobe. He was about to declare it trefah when R. Huna Mar b. Awia said to him, But all beasts that pasture in the open field have this7 [interjacent lobe], and it is called by butchers ‘the little rose-lobe’,8 This is the rule, however, only if it is found in front, perforation. vbut, the other lobes. ad loc.