Commentary for Chullin 7:3
הָאוֹכֵל מִגִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה כַזַּיִת, סוֹפֵג אַרְבָּעִים. אֲכָלוֹ וְאֵין בּוֹ כַזַּיִת, חַיָּב. אָכַל מִזֶּה כַזַּיִת וּמִזֶּה כַזַּיִת, סוֹפֵג שְׁמוֹנִים. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אֵינוֹ סוֹפֵג אֶלָּא אַרְבָּעִים:
A person who eats the quantity of an olive in size of a [sciatic nerve] גיד הנשה, incurs the penalty of forty stripes. Should a person have eaten the whole of that sinew, and it was under the mentioned size, he has nevertheless incurred the same penalty. If a person eat the size of an olive of the sinews of each hip, eighty stripes are to be inflicted on him; but according to R. Judah, forty stripes only.
Bartenura on Mishnah Chullin
אכלו ואין בו כזית חייב – because it is a living creature, he is liable for whatever the amount, like one who eats an ant of whatever the amount is liable.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chullin
If a person ate an olive’s bulk of the sciatic nerve, he incurs forty stripes. As with many food prohibitions, one is not liable unless he eats an amount equivalent to an olive. While eating less is certainly prohibited, one who does so is not liable for the forty lashes, the punishment for transgression of a negative commandment.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chullin
מזה כזית – from the right thigh an olive’s bulk and similarly from the left thigh.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chullin
If he ate all of it and it was not as much as an olive's bulk, he is liable. If one eats the entire nerve, he is liable even if it is less than an olive.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chullin
אינו סופג אלא ארבעים – for Rabbi Yehuda holds that this is not practiced other than with the right [thigh] for he expounds (Genesis 32:33): “[the socket] of the hip,” that means the strongest of the hips (i.e., the right” (see Talmud Hullin 91a). But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chullin
If he ate an olive’s bulk of it from one thigh and another olive’s bulk of it from the other thigh, he incurs eighty stripes. Rabbi Judah says: he incurs only forty stripes. According to the first opinion, the nerve of each thigh is a separate prohibition. Therefore, if one eats an olive’s bulk from each thigh, he is liable for eighty lashes (ouch!). Rabbi Judah holds that only the sciatic nerve of only one of the thighs is prohibited, because, after all, Jacob was injured on only one of his legs. Most hold, according to Rabbi Judah, that it is the right thigh that is prohibited. In any case, one who eats both thighs is obligated for only forty lashes.
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