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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any medical types on the list? Is there
any syndrome known to modern medicine that sounds like the Mishna on Yoma
82a about a pregnant woman who may eat on Yom Kippur to satisfy a desire
brought on by an aroma of food, because she would otherwise be in a sakana if
the desire is not satisfied. I can not think of any off hand. Or is this another
case where we have to come unto the fact that "nishtane hateva"? So in the time
of the mishna there was a sakana to pregnant women from this, but this is no
longer within the nature of pregnant woman?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The closest I can come up with (but no cigar) is
the strange eating desires of women when pregnant, I guess brought on by all the
hormonal changes brought on by pregnancy, (I assume this is true and not
fiction), as well as morning sickness. But I doubt these conditions can put the
mother in significant danger?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rashi seems to learn that the fetus smells the
odor. Does a fetus in utero have a sense of smell? Can the odor wafting
about in the atmosphere get through all the layers to reach the fetus even if it
has a developed sense of smell? I imagine, it would not? Anyone who
knows? I think some are maghia rashi so that it is the mother who smells the
odor, not the fetus?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How did you learn this Mishna in daf
yomi?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kol Tuv</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
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