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beans lie at the opening of the skull, where the spinal cord exits. From the beans inward, the nerve tissue is considered like the inside, i.e., the brain. Therefore, if its membrane is perforated, even minimally, the animal is a tereifa. From the beans outward, the nerve tissue is considered li
The Talmud relates that R' Yirmeya inspected a bird and found protrusions similar to two beans lying on the opening of the skull.
§ The Mishnah states: If the heart was perforated to its chamber, the animal is a tereifa. R' Zeira raises a dilemma: Is the Mishnah referring to the small chamber within the heart or to the large chamber? Abaye said to him: What is your dilemma? Didn’t we learn in the Mishnah with regard to the l
The Talmud responds: How can these cases be compared? There, the Mishnah teaches: To the bronchi [simponot], in the plural form, i.e., the one bronchus into which all the bronchi [simponot] empty out. But here, with regard to the heart, it teaches: To the chamber. What is it to me if this is a la
§ With regard to the aorta, the chief artery exiting the heart, Rav says: Like the heart itself, if it is perforated in any amount the animal is a tereifa. And Shmuel says: The animal is a tereifa only if the aorta is perforated in its majority.