Daf Yomi Limericks

"Blood of a beast that just died," Said Rav Shimon, "that has been applied To some food, won't prepare it For tumah, I swear it! Only killed blood can thusly provide"

As to one who insists upon treating Normal meat as if trumah he's eating -- Had the meat third degree Of impurity, he Would to holy food tumah be meting.

If by shechting, an animal's killed, But nonetheless no blood was spilled, You can still eat the meat For the feat is complete, E'en with hands that with tumah are filled.

"With a dull knife, one's sawing away And one shechitah is taking all day, If there isn't a pause," Rava said, "There's no cause To say the meat isn't okay."

(I'm gonna miss the nice correspondence between the solar day of the month and the daf)

"This bull's slit in two spots!" "Them's the breaks. Hey, sometimes, that's just what it takes! It's still cut by the rule," Said Rav Yitzchak bar Shmuel, "So stop yapping, and hand me my steaks."

Should he notice a loaf on a rafter, Is that something he must climb up after? Or perhaps since its fall Isn't likely at all, We proclaim to retrieve it is dafter?

On Yom Kippur, see the high priest Cut through most of the sheep's pipes at least. But another concludes it. And why? Because dudes, it's A day when his work never ceased!

When shechting a bird, cut the vein. Does one have to? Well, let me explain: 'S not a question of "need" But if you don't make it bleed Until later, it's quite a big pain.

Wait a moment, reality check -- How'd we know shechitah's done at the neck? " 'Cause the word itself meant 'Make it pure where it's bent'. Where is that? At the neck, I expec'."

Water, with grape seeds augmented, Up until the concoction's fermented, If it's tamei, we kiss it To a mikvah (implicit Is after that time, we're prevented).

Sweet almonds, while they are small, Require no tithing at all. But conversely, consider Those nuts classed as "bitter": They are tithed just when small, I recall.

Birds or ovines with in-between ages -- What's the holding of various sages? Do they say it's a doubt? Something new that's right out? Tune in later, for conflict still rages.

You can offer a fully grown tur Or a yonah that isn't mature. But with neck feathers yellow, You can't bring either fellow; They're both the wrong age, that's for sure.

Your neck's snapped, and its flesh mostly cut? You're sliced open like fish one can gut? In these cases it's said You're halachically dead And cause tumah to those in your hut.

Said Ravina, "About what's referred In the specs for the death of a bird: 'We don't care if you ripped Up a pipe.' That's the script To melikah, not shechita you've heard."