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<DIV>RMB wrote on 5/24/2007 (sorry I am just catching up on back issues after
trip to Israel):</DIV>
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size=2>>>In Chazal's day, fewer animals were fed artificial mixes, and no
one<BR>farmed in such bulk, so it was very rare. But in their day, DA [Displaced
Abomasum] would<BR>simply have killed the cow. What makes them baalos mum
is the surgery<BR>now performed to save them. <<</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>This is an embarrassingly elementary question, but maybe someone could
take the time to answer it anyway: Why would surgery make an animal treif
-- if the surgery cured what was wrong with the animal and the animal is now
perfectly healthy?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's free at <A title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>