מסכת חולין פרק א משנה ב | |
השוחט במגל יד | One who slaughters with a hand-sickle (which has both a straight edged blade as well as a serrated one, the former of which was used for this slaughter), |
בצור | with a flint, |
ובקנה | or with a reed, |
שחיטתו כשרה | his slaughtering is valid. |
הכל שוחטין | All may slaughter, |
ולעולם שוחטין | may always slaughter, |
ובכל שוחטין | and may slaughter with everything, |
חוץ ממגל קציר | except with a harvesting sickle [which has only a serrated blade], |
והמגרה | a saw, |
והשינים | teeth, |
והציפרן | and a [finger or toe] nail, |
מפני שהן חונקין | because they strangle (i.e. they do not kill with a clean slice, but rather tear or otherwise disfigure the flesh). |
השוחט במגל קציר | One who slaughters with a harvesting sickle |
בדרך הליכתה |
with a forward motion (i.e. in the direction of its teeth, rather than with a drawing motion, which would go against the direction of its teeth) |
בית שמאי פוסלין | Beis Shammai invalidate |
ובית הלל מכשירין | and Beis Hillel validate. |
אם החליקו שניה |
If they smoothed out its teeth |
הרי היא כסכין | it is as a knife. |
משנה ג |
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השוחט מתוך הטבעת | One who slaughters (by cutting) from within the ring (i.e. the uppermost ring of cartilage surrounding the trachea) |
ושיר בה מלא החוט | and leaves of it a threads-breadth |
על פני כולה | along its entirety, |
שחיטתו כשרה | his slaughtering is valid. |
רבי יוסי בר יהודה אומר | Rabbi Yosi bar Yehuda says |
מלא החוט על פני רובה | [if he left] a threads-breadth along most of it |
שחיטתם כשרה | his slaughtering is valid. |