Daf Yomi Limericks

A limerick for each day of Daf Yomi

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Chulliln 34

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.

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Chullin 33

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.

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Chullin 32

"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."

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Chullin 31

If a wave got detached from the sea, (Forty se'ah it was, yessiree!) And it fell on a guy Who was wandering by And was tamei -- He's clean as can be!

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

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Chullin 30

"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."

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Pesachim 10

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?

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Chullin 29

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!

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Chullin 28

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.

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Chullin 27

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'."

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Chullin 26

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).

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Chullin 25

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.

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Chullin 24

Definition: a guy's a young sort If he can (without any support) Keep one foot in the air, And while it is there Put a shoe on or off it. What sport!

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Chullin 23

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.

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Chullin 22

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.

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Chullin 21

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.

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Chullin 20

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."

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Chullin 19

If the knife cut starts off where it should, One-third in, it slips out of that 'hood. Then comes back the last third, Disagreement is heard: Do we say that the shechita is good?