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Bekhorot 40: A Mishnayot Festival on Blemishes

October 28, 2026 | י״ז בחשון תשפ״ז

There are 7 mishnayot on this daf! (though we’ll save the last one for tomorrow). 1 – On testicles and the nature of testicular blemishes. 2 – On the fact that blemishes are not how things are supposed to be; for example, an animal that should have 4 legs, but instead has 3 or 5. 3 – On blemishes that are not immediately discernible. 4 – On the jaw of a first-born animal, where the lower jaw juts out farther than the upper jaw, and how that’s a blemish. 5 – On extra cartilage in the ear, and how that’s a blemish. 6 – A list of blemished animals, whether in the eye or the leg or the mouth/jaw or the ear or the testicles… and whether these blemishes are discernible.

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Anne Gordon is the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. She is a veteran educator, having taught in high school and post-high school institutions in Israel and America for several decades. Yardaena Osband is a pediatrician and teaches in her community and online. They both hail from Boston, proud alumna of Maimonides School, where they first learned Gemara. Talking Talmud is their conversation (via podcast) on the daf yomi. They say: “Learning the daf? We have something for you to think about. Not learning the daf? We have something for you to think about! (Along with a taste of the daf…) Join the conversation with us!”

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