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The Talmud elaborates: But isn’t it taught in the baraita, as it was interpreted above: Like the signs of bird eggs, so are the signs of fish roe? Apparently, the baraita assumes that non-kosher fish roe exists. The Talmud answers: Didn’t you yourself find it necessary to explain and reinterpret th
The Talmud raises a difficulty: But where do you find that one of the signs of fish intestines is that they must be round and pointed? The Talmud answers: You find this with regard to the swim bladder of a fish, which is considered to be kosher if it is shaped like a kosher egg.
The Talmud asks: If there is no expert there, and one cannot determine whether or not the fish roe is kosher, what is the halakha? Rav Yehuda says that once the seller says: I salted the fish from which this roe came and they were kosher, the roe is permitted. Rav Naḥman says: The roe is prohibite
§ The Mishnah teaches: And the leaf of a ḥiltit plant is permitted. The Talmud asks: Since the previous Mishnah (35b) prohibited a sliver of ḥiltit only due to the concern that it might have been sliced with a non-kosher knife, isn’t it obvious that a leaf, which has not been sliced, is permitted? T
§ The Mishnah teaches: And rolled olive cakes. The Talmud asks: Isn’t it obvious that these are permitted? For what reason might they be prohibited? The Talmud answers: No, it is necessary to teach that they are permitted even though they are very soft. Lest you say that there is a concern that the