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דפירש. כי קאמר רב – בדלא פירש, כדתניא: דם שעל גבי ככר – גוררו ואוכלו, של בין השינים – מוצץ ובולע ואינו חושש.
where the blood was separated from a person. By contrast, when Rav Sheshet said that one need not abstain from human blood even ab initio, he was referring to a case where it was not separated from a person. As it is taught in a baraita: If blood was on a loaf of bread, one may scrape off the blood and then consume the bread. If blood was between the teeth, he may suck it and swallow it without concern.
איכא דמתני לה להא דרב ששת על הדא, דתניא: יכול חלב מהלכי שתים יהא אוכלו עובר בלאו? ודין הוא: מה בהמה טמאה שהקלתה במגעה, החמרתה בחלבה, מהלכי שתים שהחמרתה במגען – אינו דין שתחמיר בחלבן?
Some teach this statement of Rav Sheshet with regard to this baraita, as it is taught: One might have thought that one who consumes the milk of bipeds would violate a prohibition. And this conclusion could be derived based upon a logical inference: Just as with regard to a non-kosher animal, where you were lenient with regard to its contact, i.e., it cannot render people or items impure through contact when it is alive, you were stringent with regard to its milk, which is prohibited, so too in the case of bipeds, where you were stringent with regard to their contact, as living people can render other people and objects impure, isn’t it logical that you should be stringent with regard to their milk?
תלמוד לומר: ״וזה לכם הטמא״ – זה טמא, ואין חלב מהלכי שתים טמא אלא טהור.
Therefore, the verse states: “And these are they which are impure to you” (Leviticus 11:29), which indicates that these animals enumerated in that chapter are non-kosher and their milk is forbidden for consumption, but the milk of bipeds is not impure but rather pure, i.e., kosher.