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or perhaps does it mean it is fed the amount of a fig-bulk at each and every meal? If you say that it is fed a fig-bulk only at the first meal, is it fed this fodder before its regularly scheduled eating or after eating? The Talmud elaborates: Before eating, it is certainly effective for it like
The Talmud continues to inquire: Is the animal given the fodder when it is tied or untied? The Talmud explains: When it is untied, the fodder is certainly effective for this animal. When it is tied, what is the halakha? Furthermore, is it fed the fodder when it is by itself, or with another animal
Likewise, is the animal fed it in the city or in the field? When it is in the field, the fodder is certainly effective for this animal, as it is calm. When it is in the city, what is the halakha? Rav Ashi raises a further dilemma: If you say that this treatment is effective only when it is in the
§ The Mishnah teaches with regard to constant pale spots that R' Ḥananya ben Antigonus says: One examines the animal 3 times within 80 days. Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak says: And this is the halakha provided that they are divided into equal thirds, i.e., there must be an even gap between each of these
With regard to the statement of the Mishnah that constant tears are examined by feeding the animal moist and then dry fodder for a period of 3 months, Pineḥas, the brother of Mar Shmuel, raises a dilemma before Shmuel: If the animal ate the fodder in the required manner and was not healed, which m