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It is the root of a bitter vegetable.
Rav Yehuda says: This individual who eats the weight of 3 shekel of asafoetida on an empty heart, i.e., stomach, his skin sheds due to the fever he contracts. R' Abbahu said: There was an incident in which I was involved, wherein I ate the weight of one shekel of asafoetida, and had I not immediate
Rav Yosef says: This individual who eats 16 eggs and 40 nuts and 7 fruits of the caper bush, and he drinks 1/4th-log of honey in the season of Tammuz, i.e., summer, all on an empty heart, i.e., stomach, his heartstrings are uprooted.
§ The Mishnah states that if an animal is bitten by a poisonous snake, it is not a tereifa, but it is nevertheless prohibited for consumption due to the hazard it poses. The Talmud recounts the case of a certain young deer that was brought to the house of the Exilarch after slaughter whose hind legs
Rav said to him: What is the rectification for such an uncertainty? Shmuel said to him: We shall set it in a hot oven, as it will then inspect itself. Shmuel set it in the oven on a spit, and the meat fell off the bone bit by bit, a sign that a snake had bitten the young deer. Shmuel recited about