Episode Details

Different rabbis raise a total of four questions regarding various scenarios in which a ben pekua (a fetus of an animal whose mother was slaughtered) previously had a limb or limbs leave the womb.

The Gemara investigates the biblical source for the Mishna's ruling that parts of a fetus that were severed but remained inside the mother at the time of slaughter are permitted to be eaten, offering two different suggested sources.