| מסכת חולין פרק ז משנה ג | |
| האוכל מגיד הנשה כזית | One who eats an olive's worth from the sciatic nerve, |
| סופג ארבעים | receives forty [lashes]; |
| אכלו ואין בו כזית חיב | if he eats [the entirety of a prohibited sciatic nerve] and there is not an olive's worth to it, he is liable [and receives lashes]. |
| אכל מזה כזית ומזה כזית | If he eats an olive's worth from this one [the right sciatic nerve] and an olive's worth from that one [the left sciatic nerve] |
| סופג שמונים | he receives eighty [lashes], |
| רבי יהודה אומר | Rabbi Yehuda says |
| אינו סופג אלא ארבעים | he only receives forty (as he held that the prohibition only applied to the right side of the animal). |
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פרק ז משנה ד |
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| ירך | A thigh |
| שנתבשל בה גיד הנשה | inside of which the sciatic nerve was cooked, |
| אם יש בה בנותן טעם | if there is of it [the nerve] enough to impart taste [of it to the rest of the meat], |
| הרי זו אסורה | such [the entirety of the thigh] is prohibited. |
| כיצד משערין אותה | How do we measure this? |
| כבשר בלפת | Like meat in turnips (i.e. we determine if a piece of meat the size of the nerve would impart its flavor to turnips in an amount equivalent to the rest of the thigh, if cooked together). |