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The Talmud challenges: That verse is necessary for the prohibition itself, and it cannot be used to teach this additional halakha. The Talmud explains: If so, that the verse teaches only the prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring in one day, let the Torah write: You shall not
The Talmud challenges: But, nevertheless, the plural is necessary, as had God written in the Torah: You shall not slaughter [tishḥot] in the singular, I would say: With regard to one person, yes, it is prohibited to slaughter an animal and its offspring in a single day, but with regard to two, i
Therefore, God writes in the Torah: “You shall not slaughter [tishḥatu],” in the plural, indicating that even two individuals may not slaughter an animal and its offspring in a single day. The Talmud answers: If so, that only this is derived from the verse, let the Torah write: They shall not be s
What is meant by: “You shall not slaughter,” which indicates that two different people are prohibited from slaughtering? Conclude two conclusions from it: Conclude that the prohibition applies even if two people perform the two acts of slaughter, and that two cases are prohibited: Slaughtering the
§ The Mishnah teaches: If one slaughtered the mother and its daughter’s daughter and thereafter slaughtered its daughter, he incurs the 40 lashes. Sumakhos says in the name of R' Meir: He incurs 80 lashes, because by slaughtering the daughter, he transgresses twice the prohibition of: Itself and its