[Avodah] How many bones in the human body?

[Marty Bluke]

On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, Marty Bluke <marty.bluke at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Gemara there has a story that they counted the bones of an executed
> person and ended up with 152. They asked R' Yishmael about the extra bones
> and he asked was it a woman and they said yes. We see from this story that
> they actually counted the number of bones.

In fact the Gemara a little later quotes R Akiva that women have 253 bones
so we have a dispute whether they have 252 or 253 bones.