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If the animal lows, or excreted excrement, or wiggled its ear during the slaughter, that is a convulsion, and the slaughter renders eating the flesh of the animal permitted. Shmuel said to them: Is it necessary according to Abba, i.e., Rav, for the animal to move its ears during the slaughter, whi
The Talmud asks: What are matters that the death of the animal engenders? Rav Anan said: This was explained to me from Master Shmuel himself: If the animal’s foreleg was bent, and the animal straightened it, that is a matter that the death of the animal engenders. But if its foreleg was straight
The Talmud asks: What is Shmuel teaching us with that statement? We already learn in the Mishnah: The slaughter of a small animal that during its slaughter extended its foreleg that was bent and did not restore it to the bent position is not valid, as extending the foreleg is nothing other than part
The Talmud answers: If the halakha is learned from the Mishnah alone, I would say that it is specifically in a case where the animal’s foreleg had been bent, and the animal now straightens it and then bends it, that the slaughter is valid. But if the foreleg had been straight and the animal bent it
The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita to Rav’s statement cited earlier. R' Yosei says that R' Meir would say: If an animal lows during its slaughter, that is not a convulsion sufficient to render the slaughter valid. R' Elazar, son of R' Yosei, says in the name of R' Yosei: Even if the anim