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The Gemara in Bava Kama on 80a uses the term ?????? ?????. The word ?????? means weasels, and ????? means [thorn]bushes.
Artscroll explains that the Gemara is referring to a type of weasel which lives among bushes.
Jastrow in his entry on ????? brings down the term ?????? ????? and translates it as porcupine. According to this, the expression probably does not mean weasels which live in bushes; rather in all likelihood ?????? ????? means weasels which have bushes [on their backs].
Therefore I propose that instead of referring to these animals by the name which America, the Treifah Medinah tries to indoctrinate us with – “porcupine” – we, Bnei Torah, should heretofore refer to them as … BUSHY WEASELS.
The American porcupine is not and was not found in the Middle East and could not have been known Chazal of the gemorah. The “Bushy Weasel” of Bava Kamma was more likely the common hedgehog which is, indeed, found in their localities.
Why wouldn’t it be called a Kpod?
Oh i thought this was gonna be about Jeb running in 2016.
how many times a year do YOU say the word ‘porcupine’?
Redleg, in addition to the echidna/hedgehog present here, there is an Asian version of the great porcupine which although rare, is found in EY from time to time.
Porky-pine
hedge-hog
pig-tree/bush
tree/bush-pig
OP there is an Asian porcupine quite like the american one,just paler in color. They are present in EY today, and most likely were in the past when there was much more forest and scrub cover than there is today.
Wow. No kidding…. LAB, you may have just made an amazing discovery!
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