פסחים 22:1 — Soncino English Talmud

‘it’ you may cast to dogs, but you may not cast to dogs all [other] things forbidden in the Torah. And R. Meir? — [He interprets:] ‘it’ you may cast to dogs, but you may not cast to dogs hullin killed in the Temple Court. And the other? — [Benefit from] hullin killed in the Temple Court is not [forbidden] by Scriptural law. R. Isaac of Nappaha objected: But what of the nervus ischiadicus, though the Divine Law saith, Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein, yet we learned: A man may send the thigh [of an animal] to a heathen with the nervus ischiadicus in it, because its place is distinguishable! — R. Abbahu holds, when nebelah was permitted [by the Torah]. it, its forbidden fat, and its thigh sinew were permitted. This is well on the view that the sinews possess the power of imparting a taste. But on the view that the sinews possess no power of imparting a taste, what can be said? — Whom do you know to maintain [that] the sinews have no power to communicate taste? R. Simeon. For it was taught: He who eats of the thigh sinew of an unclean animal, — R. Judah declares him liable on two [accounts], while R. Simeon holds him non-culpable. [According to] R. Simeon, It is indeed forbidden for use too. For it was taught: The thigh sinew is permitted for use; this is R. Judah's view; but R. Simeon forbids it. But what of blood, of which the Divine Law saith, No soul of you shall eat blood, yet we learned, Both these and those mingled in the duct and passed out to the brook of Kidron, and they were sold to gardeners as fertilizers, and trespass is committed in respect of them? — Blood is different, because it is likened to water, for it is written, Thou shalt not eat it,’ thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water: just as water is permitted, so is blood permitted. Yet say, like water poured out as libations upon the altar? — Said R. Abbahu: ‘as water" [means] like most water. Is then ‘most water’ written? — Rather, said R. Ashi: ‘as water’ which is poured out, but not as water offered as a libation. Yet say, like water which is poured out in idol worship? — There too it is designated a libation, as it is written, They drink the wine of their drink offering [libation]. 22^ᵃ^ᵇ^ᶜ^ᵈ^ᵉ^ᶠ^ᵍ^ʰ^ⁱ^ʲ^ᵏ^ˡ^ᵐ^ⁿ^ᵒ^ᵖ^ᵠ^ʳ^ˢ^ᵗ^ᵘ^ᵛ

^ᵃnote:I.e., you may not derive any benefit from them.
^ᵇnote:What is the purpose of ‘it’, which expresses a limitation, seeing that he learns this from nebelah?
^ᶜnote:This may not be eaten, and R. Meir deduces here that all benefit is forbidden, v. Kid. 57b.
^ᵈnote:R. Judah: how does he know this?
^ᵉnote:So Rashi, v. however Tosaf. s.v. ihkuj
^ᶠnote:Or, the smith. Many Rabbis were workers or tradesmen.
^ᵍnote:Gen. XXXII, 33.
^ʰnote:The Jew need not remove the nervus ischiadicus before sending it, for fear that another Jew, seeing that the heathen had received it from a Jew, may think that the nerve has been removed and that it is all permitted, because one can easily recognize whether the nervus ischiadicus has been removed or not. Giving anything to a heathen is regarded as benefit, and we thus see that the benefit of this sinew is permitted, which conflicts with R. Abbahu's statement supra 21b.
^ⁱnote:Therefore benefit from all forbidden fat and all sinews is permitted.
^ʲnote:E.g.. if forbidden sinews are boiled together with meat, they impart a flavour to the meat, which renders that too forbidden, unless it is sixty times as much as the sinews. On that view the sinews are as flesh, and therefore when nebelah was permitted it included the sinews.
^ᵏnote:Because they are not flesh, being merely like wood, and nevertheless they are prohibited: hence they cannot be included in the permission granted for nebelah.
^ˡnote:(i) Because it is of an unclean (i.e., forbidden) animal; (ii) because the thigh sinew itself is forbidden.
^ᵐnote:He is not culpable on account of the unclean animal, because he holds that there is no taste in the sinew. Nor is he liable on account of the sinew, for this involves liability only when the flesh of that animal is permitted, but not when the flesh too is forbidden.
^ⁿnote:Lev. XVII, 12.
^ᵒnote:The residues of the blood of the ‘inner’ sin-offerings, which were poured out on the western base of the outer altar, and the residues of the blood of the ‘outer’ sin-offerings, which were poured out on the south base of the altar. These passed out through two small holes and mingled in a duct which ran through the Temple Court.
^ᵖnote:Near Jerusalem.
^ᵠnote:I.e., one may not benefit from them without paying. V. Yoma 58b. — Yet we see that benefit may be derived from blood in general.
^ʳnote:Deut. XII, 24.
^ˢnote:Benefit of which is forbidden.
^ᵗnote:As indicated by the words ‘thou shalt pour it out’.
^ᵘnote:Such water too is forbidden.
^ᵛnote:Ibid. XXXII, 38.