## Chullin Daf 61b

###### Chullin 61b:1
[Chullin 61b:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/61b:1)

וְלֵילַף מֵעוֹרֵב: מָה הָתָם תְּרֵי לָא, אַף כֹּל תְּרֵי לָא? אִם כֵּן, פֶּרֶס וְעׇזְנִיָּה דִּכְתַב רַחֲמָנָא לְמָה לִי? הַשְׁתָּא דְּאִית לֵיהּ תְּרֵי לָא אָכְלִינַן, דְּאִית לֵיהּ חַד מִיבַּעְיָא!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: **But one should derive** instead **from a crow: Just as there,** a bird with **two** signs is **not** kosher, **so too any** other bird that has only **two** signs is **not** kosher. The Gemara responds: **If so, why do I** need the ***peres* and** the ***ozniyya* that the Merciful One wrote** among the non-kosher birds? **Now** that it is established **that we do not eat** any bird **that has two** signs, **is** it **necessary** to mention these birds, **which have** only **one?** Rather, even birds that have only one sign are kosher, save those mentioned explicitly in the Torah as non-kosher.


###### Chullin 61b:2
[Chullin 61b:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/61b:2)

וְנִיגְמַר מִפֶּרֶס וְעׇזְנִיָּה? אִם כֵּן, נֶשֶׁר דִּכְתַב רַחֲמָנָא לְמָה לִי? הַשְׁתָּא דְּאִית לֵיהּ חַד לָא אָכְלִינַן, דְּלֵית לֵיהּ כְּלָל מִיבַּעְיָא! אֶלָּא נֶשֶׁר דְּלֵית לֵיהּ כְּלָל – הוּא דְּלָא תֵּיכוֹל, הָא דְּאִית לֵיהּ חַד – אֱכוֹל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: **But let us learn** instead **from** the ***peres* and *ozniyya*** themselves that all other birds with only one sign are non-kosher. The Gemara responds: **If so, why do I** need the ***nesher* that the Merciful One wrote? Now** that it is established **that we do not eat** any bird **that has one** sign, **is** it **necessary** to mention the *nesher*, **which has none? Rather,** the Torah mentions the *nesher* to indicate that **it is a *nesher*, which has none** of the signs of a kosher bird, **that you shall not eat. But** if you find any bird **that has** even **one** of the signs, you may **eat** it.


###### Chullin 61b:3
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וְאֶלָּא, טַעְמָא דִּכְתַב רַחֲמָנָא נֶשֶׁר, הָא לָאו הָכִי הֲוָה אָמֵינָא: לֵילַף מִפֶּרֶס וְעׇזְנִיָּה? הָוֵה לֵיהּ פֶּרֶס וְעׇזְנִיָּה שְׁנֵי כְתוּבִין הַבָּאִין כְּאֶחָד, וּשְׁנֵי כְּתוּבִין הַבָּאִין כְּאֶחָד אֵין מְלַמְּדִין.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: **But** if so, **the reason** for eating birds with even one sign is only **that the Merciful One wrote: “*Nesher*.”** One can infer, **then,** that if **not** for **this, I would say: Derive from** the ***peres* and *ozniyya*** that any bird with one sign is non-kosher. But that cannot be, since the ***peres* and *ozniyya* are two verses that come as one,** i.e., that teach the same matter, **and** as a rule, **two verses that come as one do not teach** a principle.


###### Chullin 61b:4
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גְּמִירִי, דְּאִיכָּא בְּהַאי לֵיכָּא בְּהַאי, וּדְאִיכָּא בְּהַאי לֵיכָּא בְּהַאי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds: **It is learned** as a tradition **that** the sign **present in this,** the *peres*, **is absent in that,** the *ozniyya*, **and that** which is **present in that is absent in this.** Accordingly, this is not a case of two verses that come as one, since each case would teach only that any other bird with only its respective sign is non-kosher. Consequently, it would have been possible to derive from them that any bird with only one sign is non-kosher. The verse therefore states: “*Nesher*,” to indicate otherwise.


###### Chullin 61b:5
[Chullin 61b:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/61b:5)

מִכְּדֵי עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה עוֹפוֹת טְמֵאִים הָווּ, אִי אֶפְשָׁר דְּחַד דְּאִיכָּא בְּהָנָךְ לֵיכָּא בְּהָנֵי, וְהָווּ לְהוּ שְׁנֵי כְּתוּבִים הַבָּאִים כְּאֶחָד.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara persists: **Now, there are twenty-four non-kosher birds** mentioned in the verses. **It is impossible that** the **one** sign **present in these,** the *peres* and *ozniyya*, respectively, **is absent in** all **those** other birds. Consequently, the mentioning of the *peres*, *ozniyya*, and the other birds **constitutes two verses that come as one.** If so, one could not have derived from the cases of the *peres* and *ozniyya* that a bird with one sign is not kosher, and the inclusion of the *nesher* is unnecessary.


###### Chullin 61b:6
[Chullin 61b:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/61b:6)

גְּמִירִי: עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה עוֹפוֹת טְמֵאִים הָווּ, וְאַרְבָּעָה סִימָנִין. תְּלָתָא הָדְרִי בְּכוּלְּהוּ, עֶשְׂרִים מֵהֶם שְׁלֹשָׁה שְׁלֹשָׁה, וּתְרֵי בְּעוֹרֵב, חַד בְּפֶרֶס וְחַד בְּעׇזְנִיָּה, דְּאִיתֵיהּ בְּהָא לֵיתֵיהּ בְּהָא. מַהוּ דְּתֵימָא לֵילַיף מִינֵּיהּ – כְּתַב רַחֲמָנָא ״נֶשֶׁר״, נֶשֶׁר דְּלֵית לֵיהּ כְּלָל הוּא דְּלָא תֵּיכוֹל, הָא אִיכָּא דְּאִית לֵיהּ חַד – אֱכוֹל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds: **It is learned** as a tradition that **there are twenty-four non-kosher birds, and four signs** of a kosher bird. The same **three** signs **can be found in all of them,** with the exception of either the *peres* or the *ozniyya*. **Twenty of them** have all **three** signs, **and two** of those signs can be found **in a crow. One** sign is found **in a *peres* and one in an *ozniyya*,** and the sign **present in this is absent in that,** i.e., one of them has the fourth sign, which is absent from the other twenty-three non-kosher birds. **Lest you say: Derive from it** that any other bird with only that sign is non-kosher, **the Merciful One wrote** about the ***nesher*** to indicate: **It is a *nesher*, which has none** of the signs of a kosher bird, **that you shall not eat. But** if **there is** any bird **that has** even **one** of the signs, you may **eat** it.


###### Chullin 61b:7
[Chullin 61b:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/61b:7)

אֶלָּא, תּוֹרִין דִּכְתַב רַחֲמָנָא לְמָה לִי? אָמַר רַב עוּקְבָא בַּר חָמָא: לְקׇרְבָּן. אָמַר רַב נַחְמָן:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **But** if one learns from *nesher* that a bird with even one sign is kosher, **why do I** need the **doves that the Merciful One wrote** are kosher, which have all four? **Rav Ukva bar Ḥama said:** The dove was not mentioned to teach that it is kosher, but rather **to** teach that it is the only bird fit to be sacrificed as **an offering. Rav Naḥman says:**