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The Talmud asks: How old does the child have to be so that one can assume that he already recognizes his mother? Rava said that Rav Yirmeya bar Abba said that Rav said: 3 months, and Shmuel said: 30 days, and R' Yitzḥak said that R' Yoḥanan said: 50 days. Rav Shimi bar Abaye said: The halakha is in
The Talmud relates: When Rami bar Yeḥezkel came from Eretz Yisrael, he said: Do not listen to, i.e., do not accept, those principles that my brother Yehuda said in the name of Shmuel, as Shmuel did not establish a particular time with regard to this matter. Rather, this is what Shmuel said: Whenev
The Talmud relates: A certain divorcée came before Shmuel, as she did not wish to nurse her son. He said to Rav Dimi bar Yosef: Go and check her, i.e., verify whether the child recognizes his mother. He went, placed her in a row of women, and took her son in his arms and passed him near them to se
§ Apropos the period of time during which a child nurses, the Talmud continues to debate different aspects of this matter. A baraita states: A child may continue to nurse until the age of 24 months, and from this point forward, if he continues to nurse, he is like one who nurses from a non-kosher
The Master said in the baraita: From this point forward he is like one who nurses from a non-kosher animal. The Talmud raises a contradiction from a baraita: One might have thought that the milk of bipeds, i.e., humans, would be non-kosher like that of a non-kosher animal, based on a logical deriv