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Mishnah: In the case of one who slaughters by cutting one siman, i.e., the windpipe or the gullet, in a bird, and two simanim in an animal, his slaughter is valid, and the halakhic status of the majority of one siman is like that of the entire siman. R' Yehuda says: The slaughter is not valid unti
Talmud: The Talmud infers from the term: One who slaughters, that if one slaughtered, then after the fact, yes, the slaughter is valid; but ab initio, no, it is prohibited. The Talmud asks: Is the ruling with regard to the cutting of two simanim in an animal that ab initio, no, it is prohibited
§ Kaf, mem, shin is a mnemonic for the sources of the statements cited in the discussion that follows: Rav Kahana, Rav Yeimar, and the school of R' Yishmael.
Rav Kahana says: From where is it derived with regard to slaughter that it is performed from the neck? It is derived from a verse, as it is stated: “And he shall slaughter [veshaḥat] the young bull before YHWH” (Leviticus 1:5), which is interpreted homiletically: From the place where the animal ben
The Talmud challenges: And say that slaughter is from its tail, which is also a place in the animal’s body that is bent. The Talmud responds: From the term: Bends [shaḥ], one can conclude by inference that we require a part of the animal’s body that can stand erect and that bends; and this, the t