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klugeryid
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thats crazy. Aaaand I proved from a Gemara that that is not the case. when the Gemara asks how can a thorn bush be a hadas if derachea darchei noam? The Gemara DOES NOT say “prove a thorn bush is prickly” such a question would be absurd. The Gemara accepts it and moves on.

No. Not at all.
The gemarah is looking what is the proper min.
It asks maybe the Thornbursh?
So it says can’t be because it’s not דרכי נועם
That’ entire סוגיא is the gemarah on its own.
Had the Torah specified use from the סנה it never would have said can’t be.
If I say