## Chullin Daf 67a

###### Chullin 67a:1
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הַטֵּל פְּרָט בֵּינֵיהֶם וְדוּנֵם בִּכְלָל וּפְרָט וּכְלָל, ״בַּמָּיִם״ – כָּלַל, ״בַּיַּמִּים וּבַנְּחָלִים״ – פָּרַט, ״בַּמַּיִם״ – חָזַר וְכָלַל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**place** the **detail between** the two generalizations **and** then **expound them as a generalization, and a detail, and a generalization.** Therefore, the first instance of the phrase **“in the waters”** is **a generalization.** The phrase **“in the seas and in the rivers”** is **a detail.** And by the second instance of the phrase **“in the waters,” it then generalized** again.


###### Chullin 67a:2
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כְּלָל וּפְרָט וּכְלָל – אִי אַתָּה דָן אֶלָּא כְּעֵין הַפְּרָט, מָה הַפְּרָט מְפוֹרָשׁ מַיִם נוֹבְעִים, אַף כֹּל מַיִם נוֹבְעִים. מַאי רַבִּי? חֲרִיצִין וּנְעִיצִין לְאִיסּוּרָא, וּמַאי מַיעֵט? בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת לְהֶתֵּירָא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Therefore, as in any instance of **a generalization, and a detail, and a generalization, you may deduce** that the verse is referring **only** to items **similar to the detail. Just as the detail,** seas and rivers, is referring **explicitly** to **flowing water, so too,** fish without fins and scales found in **all flowing water** are forbidden. **What** does this **include?** It includes **trenches and water channels, to prohibit** fish without fins and scales found in them. **And what** does it **exclude?** It excludes **pits, ditches, and caves,** which are collections of still water, **to permit** all fish found in them.


###### Chullin 67a:3
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וְאֵימָא: מָה הַפְּרָט מְפוֹרָשׁ – מַיִם גְּדֵלִין עַל גַּבֵּי קַרְקַע, אַף כֹּל מַיִם גְּדֵלִין עַל גַּבֵּי קַרְקַע. וּמַאי רַבִּי? אֲפִילּוּ בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת לְאִיסּוּרָא, וּמַאי מַיעֵט? מַיעֵט כֵּלִים!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **But** why not **say: Just as the detail** refers **explicitly** to **water that grows,** i.e., is found, **on the ground, so too,** it includes **all water that grows on the ground? And what** would this **include?** It would include **even pits, ditches, and caves, to prohibit** fish found in them that do not have fins and scales. **And what** would it **exclude?** It would **exclude** only those found in **vessels.**


###### Chullin 67a:4
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אִם כֵּן, ״תֹּאכְלוּ״ מַאי אַהֲנִי לֵיהּ?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara responds: **If so, what use is** the phrase “These **may you eat** of all that are in the waters”? Even without it, vessels would be excluded, since they are not at all similar to seas and rivers. Rather, the phrase “These may you eat of all that are in the waters” serves to indicate that only trenches and water channels are considered similar to the detail, but all fish found in pits, ditches, and caves are permitted.


###### Chullin 67a:5
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דְּבֵי רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל תָּנָא: ״בַּמָּיִם״ ״בַּמַּיִם״ שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים, אֵין זֶה כְּלָל וּפְרָט, אֶלָּא רִיבָּה וּמִיעֵט. ״בַּמָּיִם״ – רִיבָּה, ״בַּיַּמִּים וּבַנְּחָלִים״ – מִיעֵט, ״בַּמַּיִם״ – חָזַר וְרִיבָּה. רִיבָּה וּמִיעֵט וְרִיבָּה – רִיבָּה הַכֹּל. מַאי רַבִּי? חֲרִיצִין וּנְעִיצִין לְאִיסּוּרָא, וּמַאי מַיעֵט? בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת לְהֶתֵּירָא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The *tanna* of the school of **Rabbi Yishmael taught:** The verse’s use of the phrase **“in the waters,” “in the waters” twice is not** to be interpreted as **a generalization and a detail,** but **rather** as an instance of **amplification and restriction.** By the first phrase **“in the waters,”** the verse **amplifies,** by the phrase **“in the seas and in the rivers” it restricts,** and by the second instance of **“in the waters” it then amplifies again.** According to a hermeneutical principle, when a verse **amplified, and** then **restricted, and** then **amplified, it amplified** the relevant category to include **everything** except for the specific matter excluded by the restriction, i.e., in the seas and in the rivers. **What,** then, **does it include?** It includes **trenches and water channels, to prohibit** fish without fins and scales found in them. **And what does it exclude?** It excludes fish found in **pits, ditches, and caves, to permit** them.


###### Chullin 67a:6
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אֵימָא: מַאי רַבִּי? בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת לְאִיסּוּרָא, וּמַאי מַיעֵט? מַיעֵט כֵּלִים. אִם כֵּן, ״תֹּאכְלוּ״ מַאי אַהֲנִי לֵיהּ?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: Why not **say: What does it include?** It includes fish found in **pits, ditches, and caves, to prohibit** them if they do not have fins and scales. **And what does it exclude?** It excludes only fish found in **vessels.** The Gemara responds: **If so, what use is** the phrase “These **may you eat** of all that are in the waters”? Even without it, vessels would be excluded. Rather, it indicates that pits, ditches and caves are excluded by the restriction, and all fish found in them are permitted.


###### Chullin 67a:7
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וְאֵיפוֹךְ אֲנָא, כִּדְתָנֵי מַתִּתְיָה, דְּתָנֵי מַתִּתְיָה בַּר יְהוּדָה: מַאי רָאִיתָ לְרַבּוֹת בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת לְהֶתֵּירָא, וּלְהוֹצִיא חֲרִיצִין וּנְעִיצִין לְאִיסּוּרָא? מְרַבֶּה אֲנִי בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת שֶׁהֵן עֲצוּרִים כְּכֵלִים, וּמוֹצִיא אֲנִי חֲרִיצִין וּנְעִיצִין שֶׁאֵין עֲצוּרִין כְּכֵלִים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: **But** perhaps **l should reverse** the statement and claim that fish without fins and scales in pits, ditches, and caves are prohibited, and those in trenches and water channels are permitted. The Gemara responds: One must say **as Mattitya taught, as Mattitya bar Yehuda taught: What did you see** that caused you **to include pits, ditches, and caves, to permit** them, **and to exclude trenches and water channels, to prohibit** them? **I include pits, ditches, and caves, which** contain **still** water **like vessels, and I exclude trenches and water channels, which are not still like vessels,** as water flows through them.


###### Chullin 67a:8
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הֵי סָתוּם וְהֵי מְפוֹרָשׁ? פְּלִיגִי בַּהּ רַב אַחָא וְרָבִינָא: חַד אָמַר: יֵשׁ לוֹ – מְפוֹרָשׁ, וְאֵין לוֹ – סָתוּם, וְחַד אָמַר: אֵין לוֹ – מְפוֹרָשׁ, וְיֵשׁ לוֹ – סָתוּם.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The *baraita* on the previous *amud* states that the Torah permits all fish without fins and scales in vessels both explicitly and implicitly. The Gemara asks: **Which** verse is the **implicit** source **and which** is the **explicit** source? **Rav Aḥa and Ravina disagree with regard to it. One says:** The verse permitting “whatever **has** fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers,” is the **explicit** source, **and** the verse prohibiting “all that **have not** fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers,” is the **implicit** source. **And one says** the opposite, i.e., that the verse prohibiting “all that **have not** fins and scales” is the **explicit** source **and** the verse that permits “whatever **has** fins and scales” is the **implicit** source.


###### Chullin 67a:9
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מַאי טַעְמָא דְּמַאן דְּאָמַר יֵשׁ לוֹ מְפוֹרָשׁ? אָמַר לָךְ: מִינֵּיהּ הוּא דְּקָא מִשְׁתְּרוּ כֵּלִים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **What is the reasoning of the one who says** that “whatever **has** fins and scales” is the **explicit** source? The Gemara responds: That Sage could have **said to you: It is from** this verse **that** the Gemara derives on the previous *amud* that fish without fins and scales found in **vessels are permitted.**


###### Chullin 67a:10
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מַאי טַעְמָא דְּמַאן דְּאָמַר אֵין לוֹ מְפוֹרָשׁ? דְּהַאי הוּא דְּקָמוֹכַח אַהַאיְךְ, דְּאִי מֵהַאיְךְ הֲוָה אָמֵינָא: בְּכֵלִים, אַף עַל גַּב דְּאִית לֵיהּ – נָמֵי לָא תֵּיכוּל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **What is the reasoning of the one who says** that “all that **have not** fins and scales” is the **explicit** source? The Gemara responds: The reasoning is **that it is this** verse **that proves that the other** verse permits all fish in vessels. **As, if** one attempted to derive whether fish in vessels are permitted **from the other** verse alone, **I would say** the opposite: The verse indicates that a fish with fins and scales is permitted only in the seas and rivers; but **in vessels, even if it has** fins and scales, **you** may **still not eat** it. The phrase in the verse “and all that have not fins and scales” indicates that these restrictions apply only to fish in the seas and rivers.


###### Chullin 67a:11
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אָמַר רַב הוּנָא: לָא לִשְׁפֵּי אִינָשׁ שִׁיכְרָא בְּצִבְיָיתָא בְּאוּרְתָּא, דִּילְמָא פָּרֵישׁ לְעֵיל מִצִּבְיָיתָא וַהֲדַר נָפֵיל לְכָסָא, (וְהָוֵי) [וְקָא] עוֹבַר מִשּׁוּם ״שֶׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל הָאָרֶץ״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ **Rav Huna says: A person should not pour beer** into a vessel **through straw** to filter it **at night, lest** a creeping animal **emerge** from the beer **above the straw and then fall into the cup.** Since the drinker poured the beer through a filter, he will assume that all creatures found in the vessel originated there and are permitted despite lacking fins and scales. He will therefore drink the beer along with the creature, **and** in doing so, he **violates** the prohibition: “Every **swarming thing that swarms upon the earth** is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten” (Leviticus 11:41).


###### Chullin 67a:12
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אִי הָכִי, בְּמָנָא נָמֵי, דִּלְמָא פָּרֵישׁ לְדַפְנָא דְּמָנָא וַהֲדַר נָפֵיל לְמָנָא? הָתָם הַיְינוּ רְבִיתֵיהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: **If so,** that one must be concerned that a creeping animal may have fallen from the straw into the cup, one should **also** be concerned about any beer found **in a vessel,** as **perhaps** some creature **emerged** from the beer **onto the side of the vessel,** thereby becoming forbidden, **and then fell** back **into the vessel.** The Gemara responds: **There, that is** the creature’s normal manner of **growth,** to attach itself to the sides of the vessel, and it is not considered to have emerged from the liquid.


###### Chullin 67a:13
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וּמְנָא תֵּימְרַאּ, דְּתַנְיָא: מִנַּיִן לְרַבּוֹת בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת, שֶׁשּׁוֹחֶה וְשׁוֹתֶה מֵהֶן וְאֵינוֹ נִמְנָע? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ״תֹּאכְלוּ מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר בַּמָּיִם״. וְלֵיחוּשׁ דִּלְמָא פָּרֵישׁ לְדַפְנָא וַהֲדַר נָפֵיל? אֶלָּא הַיְינוּ רְבִיתֵיהּ. הָכָא נָמֵי הַיְינוּ רְבִיתֵיהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And from where do you say** that emerging in its normal manner of growth does not render it forbidden? **As it is taught** in a *baraita*: **From where** is it derived **to include pits, ditches, and caves, that** one may **bend down and drink from them and** need **not refrain** from drinking the creeping creatures inside them? **The verse states:** “These **may you eat of all that are in the waters,”** indicating that all fish in pits, ditches, and caves are permitted. **And** one might ask: **Let** one **be concerned** that **perhaps** a creature **emerged** from the water **onto the side** of the pit or cave, thereby becoming forbidden, **and then fell** back into it. **Rather,** one must say that since **that is** the creature’s normal manner of **growth,** it does not render it forbidden. **Here too,** with regard to beer in a vessel, **that is** the creature’s normal manner of **growth** and does not render it forbidden.


###### Chullin 67a:14
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ רַב חִסְדָּא לְרַב הוּנָא: תַּנְיָא דִּמְסַיַּיע לָךְ, ״כׇּל הַשֶּׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל הָאָרֶץ״ – לְרַבּוֹת יַבְחוּשִׁין שֶׁסִּינְּנָן; טַעְמָא דְּסִינְּנָן, הָא לָא סִינְּנָן – שְׁרֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Ḥisda said to Rav Huna:** A *baraita* **is taught that supports your** statement that one need be concerned only about filtered beer: The verse: **“Every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth** is a detestable thing” (Leviticus 11:41), serves **to include gnats** found in liquid **that one filtered.** One may infer: **The reason** they are prohibited is **because one filtered** the liquids, **but** if one **did not filter them,** the gnats **are permitted.** Evidently, one need not be concerned that they emerged from the water onto the side of the vessel.


###### Chullin 67a:15
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אָמַר שְׁמוּאֵל: קִישּׁוּת שֶׁהִתְלִיעָה

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ With regard to the prohibition against consuming creeping animals, **Shmuel says: A cucumber that became infested with worms**