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These dates stored in a jar are permitted after remaining there for 12 months of the year. Since worms have no bones, they cannot last 12 months. Consequently, any worms found in the dates must have hatched after they were picked and are therefore permitted.
Rav says: There is no one-day-old mosquito, since all mosquitoes die before they have lived a day. And there is no one-year-old fly.
Rav Pappa said to Abaye: But isn’t there the adage that people say that the female mosquito revolted against the male mosquito 7 years, since she said to him: I saw a townsman swimming in the water, and he came out and wrapped himself in sheets, and you sat on him and sucked blood from him, and you
§ We learned in a Mishnah elsewhere (Bekhorot 40a): With regard to an animal with 5 legs, or one that has only 3, this is a blemish, and the animal may not be brought as an offering. Rav Huna said: They taught this halakha only in a case where the animal was missing or had an additional foreleg. Bu
The Talmud recounts the case of a certain animal that had two ceca. They brought it to Ravina, and he deemed it a tereifa based on the statement of Rav Huna that an extra limb is like a missing limb. Since an animal missing a cecum is a tereifa, an animal with an extra cecum is likewise a tereifa. T