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Pesachim 10: Springmaus/Jerboa

jyungar December 1, 2020

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The Gemara differentiates between the Chulda (marten) on Daf 9 and the Achbar the common mouse whose genetics elsewhere (chullin/Sanhedrin) is described as half animal half earth on our daf. This mud mouse could not procreate and has been described by others in antiquity including Aristotle, Ovid and Averroes.

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