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Bekhorot 44: words to know
- מְנָא הָנֵי מִילֵּי (Mena hanei milei): From where are these matters derived?. Used to ask for the biblical source regarding abnormal eye positions.
- מַרְאִית הָעַיִן (Mar'it ha'ayin): Creating an impression; appearance of a blemish. Distinguishes between an actual physical blemish and disqualification due to appearance.
- בַּעַל מוּם (Ba'al mum): A blemished individual disqualified from Temple service. Shimi challenges Rav that describing Moses's height would make him technically blemished.
- וּרְמִינְהוּ (Urminhu): They raised a contradiction between equal sources. Introduces a contradiction between the disqualification of cut horns and the red heifer.
- גּוֹרְעִין וּמוֹסִיפִין וְדוֹרְשִׁין (Gori'in umosifin vedoreshin): Subtracting, adding, and homiletically interpreting letters. Identifies the hermeneutical method used to read "mero'aḥ ashekh" as "marav ḥashukhin."