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==The Basics== | ==The Basics== | ||
The Torah prohibits the consumption of meat and fowl without prior ritual slaughter, known as ''Shechitah''. There is one positive commandment to perform Shechitah, "''VeZavachta... Ka'asher Tziviticha''" (''Devarim'' 12:21) and four negative prohibitions involved - Ever Min HaChai, Nevelah, Terefah, and Dam. | The Torah prohibits the consumption of meat and fowl without prior ritual slaughter, known as ''Shechitah''. There is one positive commandment to perform Shechitah, "''VeZavachta... Ka'asher Tziviticha''" (''Devarim'' 12:21) and four negative prohibitions involved - Ever Min HaChai, Nevelah, Terefah, and Dam. | ||
"Nevelah" refers to an animal that was not slaughtered properly. "Terefah" refers to an animal that for one medical reason or another would not have lived out the year and is such prohibited from consumption even though it was slaughtered properly. Nevelot emit Tumat Nevelah (ritual impurity of Nevelah), whereas Terefot are Tehorot (pure). | |||
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==The Knife== | ==The Knife== | ||
==The Five Laws of Shechitah Every Shochet Must Know== | |||
<ref>See also [https://thekoshercut.com/blog/the-five-disqualifying-acts/ The Five Disqualifying Acts - The Kosher Cut]</ref> | |||
==How to Shecht== | ==How to Shecht== | ||
'For more information, see [[The Shechitah Process]] | |||
The Gemara requires checking the knife before and after every shechita in order to catch a pegima as soon as it happens. Chazal were concerned that the knife might contact dirt on the animal’s skin or hit a bone during shechita and receive a nick and become invalid.<ref>Chullin 10b</ref> | |||
===Before=== | ===Before=== | ||
# Check the knife | |||
# Locate and grab the Simanim (Tefisah) | |||
# Recite the Beracha ("'Al HaShechitah'") | |||
===During=== | |||
# Cut the two simanim and veins in a sawing motion | |||
# Let blood drain out | |||
===After=== | |||
# Check the Simanim | |||
# Check the knife | |||
== | ==Terefot (Treifos) == | ||
The eight basic issues in terefot are: | |||
==Related Works== | ==Related Works== | ||
* Tevuot Shor, a commentary on Shulchan Aruch Hilchot Shechitah by Rabbi Alexander Sender Shor. | * Tevuot Shor, a commentary on Shulchan Aruch Hilchot Shechitah by Rabbi Alexander Sender Shor. | ||
