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deceptively, i.e., he only pretended to kill the son. The father fainted and went limp. By this movement, his intestines entered his stomach, and the Roman sewed up his stomach, and he recovered.
§ The Mishnah states: If its legs were broken, the bird remains kosher. The Talmud relates that there was a certain basket of birds with broken legs that came before Rava. Rava inspected each bird at the convergence of sinews in the thigh, and when he found that all its sinews were intact, he deeme
Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: A dislocated foreleg in an animal is kosher. A dislocated femur in an animal renders it a tereifa. A dislocated femur in a bird renders it a tereifa. A dislocated wing in a bird renders it a tereifa, because we must be concerned that perhaps the lung was perforated.
Ḥizkiyya, son of R' Ḥiyya, says: A bird has no lungs. And R' Yoḥanan says: A bird does have lungs, and they are like a rose petal in appearance, thin and red, between the wings. The Talmud asks: What does Ḥizkiyya mean when he says that a bird has no lungs? If we say that it has no lungs at all,
Rather, say that Ḥizkiyya means that a bird’s lung has no halakha of falling and no halakha of singeing. If a bird falls, one need not inspect the lungs for damage as he must other organs (see 51b), and if it falls in a fire, one need not inspect the lungs for a change in color as he must other or