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Hullin 120: When Food Is Not Food

August 28, 2026 | ט״ו באלול תשפ״ו

When do spices join together with the meat to yield an amount that can impart impurity of food — even though the spices alone wouldn’t get that impurity to begin with, because spices aren’t quite food for this purpose. The Gemara clarifies that it really means the scrapings – including meat – at the bottom of the pot. But what if that includes forbidden fats or coagulated blood or the like? Also, liquids that come from foods with special halakhic statuses — and how those liquids have the special statuses as well.

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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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