Nafka minnah (Aramaic: נפקא מינה, lit. "emerges from it" ) is a Talmudic phrase used in analytical debates. It is often used in the phrase Mai nafka minnah...

a nafka minnah for the distinction - an empirical case in which the two understandings in fact lead to different results. Only when a nafka minnah (even...

the rationale for that result. It is contrasted with the question Mai nafka minnah, "What goes out from it?", which indicates that in a distinction between...