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==Crafting a Shechitah Knife== | ==Crafting a Shechitah Knife== | ||
Modern day shechitah knives are commonly rectangularly shaped to facilitate shechitah without issues of chaladah and derasa. | Modern day shechitah knives are commonly rectangularly shaped to facilitate shechitah without issues of chaladah and derasa and made with easy to sharpen steel that maintains its edge to minimize pegimot. | ||
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# One should use a knife that ends in a right angle, not a sharp point, in order to avoid chaladah. In pressing circumstances, can can cover the tip with something light and then shecht (a hard tip cover could lead to derasa).<ref>Simla Chadasha 6:4</ref> | # One should use a knife that ends in a right angle, not a sharp point, in order to avoid chaladah. In pressing circumstances, can can cover the tip with something light and then shecht (a hard tip cover could lead to derasa).<ref>Simla Chadasha 6:4</ref> | ||
