Chag pesach!
This was a commission last year for LappiFox - a family member had just gone through a debate over a passage in Talmud, as one does, asking (summarizing this bluntly) "so you know how we take all the bread out of our house for passover? What if a Chulda (stoat, weasel, what have you) breaks into the house and hides bread in a cache, does that count?"
Greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,898 pages of heated debate, up there with "if a vampire has to drink your blood to live does that supersede Kashrut" and "is it acceptable to have a goyishe Yeerk manipulate your body on Shabbes to do tasks."
This was a commission last year for LappiFox - a family member had just gone through a debate over a passage in Talmud, as one does, asking (summarizing this bluntly) "so you know how we take all the bread out of our house for passover? What if a Chulda (stoat, weasel, what have you) breaks into the house and hides bread in a cache, does that count?"
Greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,898 pages of heated debate, up there with "if a vampire has to drink your blood to live does that supersede Kashrut" and "is it acceptable to have a goyishe Yeerk manipulate your body on Shabbes to do tasks."
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Mustelid (Other)
Gender Any
Size 793 x 1024px
I was VERY happy with it, and amazed I hadn't posted it yet.
It can be translated in many different ways, rat being one of them, but in the specific Talmudic passage quoted, scholars translate it as weasel or marten.
Nice work!
So, the worry is that the marten or stoat [or whathaveyou] would hide the bread somewhere IN the house, thereby stopping the people from removing all the bread from the premises, which is what you're meant to do?
Or it was something about some of the bread being removed from the premises by an entity that didn't know it had any significance?
So, the worry is that the marten or stoat [or whathaveyou] would hide the bread somewhere IN the house, thereby stopping the people from removing all the bread from the premises, which is what you're meant to do?
Or it was something about some of the bread being removed from the premises by an entity that didn't know it had any significance?
Pretty close to the former.
Basically the debate that all these rabbis have in the Talmud is that if you’ve finished cleaning for Passover, and a weasel gets in and hides a piece of bread somewhere, is the house still clean?
The answer: you gotta go over the whole house again, because those mustelids are crafty!
Basically the debate that all these rabbis have in the Talmud is that if you’ve finished cleaning for Passover, and a weasel gets in and hides a piece of bread somewhere, is the house still clean?
The answer: you gotta go over the whole house again, because those mustelids are crafty!
Chametz? In my house? It's more likely than you think.
lmao I love this
lmao I love this
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