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Our Daf discusses a needle that was found in sacrificial meat, with the result that the meat is impure, but the hands and the knife are pure. How could that be? This leads us to the poem "Heart's Needle" by pulitzer prize poet W.D Snodgrass and his struggle to remain a father to his daughter...