Q&A: A difficult passage in Hullin / help
A difficult passage in Hullin / help
Question
Hello.
This isn't all that related to the site, but I thought maybe someone could help me. I am currently reading a book in which it says:
\"Hayyim takes a few steps and comes closer to those studying. Immediately he hears that they are not just studying some random page of Talmud, but are grappling with the difficult passage of the \"nesher\"—that well-known passage in tractate Hullin that even exceptionally great scholars find difficult. Such passages in the stormy sea of the Talmud are, for scholars, like the powerful waves of a fierce storm in the heart of the sea for veteran sailors\".
Could you help me identify which passage is being referred to, the one in Hullin about the eagle?
Answer
Apparently the intention is to the passage on pages 60b–61a: the law of a bird that has signs of purity yet is predatory.
Discussion on Answer
Bava Kamma 69–70
Sorry to be a bother, but I want to study the passage — where are Maimonides' words about 'the discreet ones'?
You want to study a heavy passage and you don't know how to find the source in Ein Mishpat in Maimonides? Second Tithe 9:7, and the commentaries there, who were greatly stirred up about it.
Oy. Something is off with me. I wanted to write "cf. for analysis," and I forgot about Ein Mishpat. Really my blunder. And again, thank you very much!
Not "again," because I am not Rabbi Michi
Didn't I already write that something is off with me?
Thanks!
And this?
"…after all, there are many difficult places in the Talmud and in Maimonides that have always been famous among learners for their profound complexity, and because of this they would attract and challenge the sharpest minds among Talmud scholars. For example, the passage of 'the priest seized it,' Maimonides' words about 'the discreet ones,' and the like…"
What are Maimonides' words about 'the discreet ones'?