<div dir="ltr">I would imagine that just like by a strawberry whereby it is classified as a fruit scientifically but nevertheless halacha requires us to make a hadaamah on it, similarly with the skeletal structural composition of a human. There must be a difference for the basis of classification as to what makes something count as a bone. Did they actually count it out or simply come to the conclusion based on a drasha?<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" style="background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Arial,San-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><td align="left" valign="top" width="10" style="padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><img src="https://htmlsigs.s3.amazonaws.com/logos/files/000/163/788/landscape/us-israel-flag.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="80" width="81" style="border:0px;vertical-align:middle"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105340884154171026929/about" style="color:rgb(36,169,57);text-decoration:none;display:inline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank"><img width="24" height="24" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/htmlsig-assets/round/googleplus.png" alt="Google Plus" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; display: none !important;"></a> </p></td><td style="padding:0px;width:6px;background-color:rgb(71,124,204)"></td><td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><i>Sincerely, </i></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:transparent">Abraham J. Friedman</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><a href="mailto:ajfried22@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none;display:inline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">ajfried22@gmail.com</a><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-j-friedman-796159149" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><font color="#9900ff">Connect with me on Linkedin</font></a></p></td></tr><tr style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Arial,San-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0px"></td></tr><tr style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Arial,San-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0px"></td></tr><tr style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,Arial,San-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:22 PM Marty Bluke via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The Gemara in bechoros 45 says that the human body has 248 bones and that women have 4 additional bones, 252 in total. The modern consensus is that an adult has 206 bones the same number for men and women. <div><br></div><div>What explanations are given to resolve these discrepancies besides nishtane hateva?</div>
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