זבחים - Zevachim

Zevachim 22b ~ On the Physical and Mental Dangers of Circumcision

X-linked hemophilia and the baby boy who could not be circumcised.

Zevachim 25b ~ Teaching By Humiliation

“Those stupid Babylonians” and the art of medical pimping.

Zevachim 54b ~ How High is Jerusalem?

Not as tall as the rabbis thought.

Zevachim 62b ~ To the Right. Always to the Right

Right handers only in the Temple, and in all the world’s major religions too.

Zevachim 70b ~ The Prosecution (& Punishment) of Animals

Pity the poor ox. Oh, and the swans, rodents, dolphins, grasshoppers, and a nest of termites.

Zevachim 74a ~ Talmudic Probability Theory II

Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch and probability in the Talmud.

Zevachim 85b ~ The Tumtum and the Androgyne. In Birds

Determining the sex of a pigeon, and the recent discovery of a bilateral gynandomorph.

Zevachim 112a ~ Caesarean Section in Cows and Ewes

Temple sacrifices, and the eight different ways to perform a cesarean section on your cow.

Zevachim 113b ~ On the Identity of the Re'em

How the re’em survived Noah’s flood, and ended up on a prehistoric cave painting.