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The Talmud explains: In order for the fetus to be permitted, I require that it have hooves, and a dove-shaped fetus does not have hooves.
The Talmud objects: If that is so, that the fetus is permitted only if it fulfills the conditions mentioned in that verse, then a fetus with non-cloven hooves found inside a cow’s womb should be forbidden, whereas the baraita cited on 68b states that it is permitted. The Talmud answers: This is as
Rav Shimi bar Ashi said: Actually, the halakha that the fetus and its severed pieces are permitted should be derived as you previously said, i.e., from the phrase: An animal in the animal. And with regard to that which posed a difficulty for you, i.e., the Mishnah in Temura that states one cannot
The Talmud asks: And from where do you say that this Mishnah expresses the opinion of R' Shimon? The Talmud explains: As we learned in the same Mishnah (Temura 10a) that R' Yosei says: But with regard to consecrated offerings, if one says the leg of this animal is a burnt offering, then all of the
R' Yosei clearly disagrees with the opinion that substituting a limb is not possible. But R' Yosei’s formulation indicates that even according to that opinion, if a single limb is consecrated then the entire animal becomes consecrated. The Talmud clarifies: To whom is R' Yosei responding? If we say