The Gemara says that the signs for a bird to be kosher aren’t explicit in the Torah – except that the Gemara also says that the signs for a bird to be not-kosher are explicit in the Torah — via the “nesher” — so the signs are identifiable. But does the nesher provide rules of thumb or is it specifically and only itself as a non-kosher bird? Plus, naming some non-kosher birds that are listed specifically, but that don’t have all 4 signs of being a non-kosher bird that a nesher has. But these two named birds become significant in terms of representing which single kosher signs render the birds into examples for the kosher-ness of other birds too.

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