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==The Knife== | ==The Knife== | ||
''See [[The Shechitah Knife]] for more details'' | ''See [[The Shechitah Knife]] for more details'' | ||
One can perform shechitah with a variety of items, but nowadays everybody just uses a knife. | |||
The knife must be sharp ("''Chad''")and smooth (''Chalak'') so that it can swiftly cut what it has to without tearing. | One can perform shechitah with a variety of items, but nowadays everybody just uses a knife.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 6</ref> | ||
Different knife lengths are required depending on the width of the neck being slaughtered. | The knife must be sharp ("''Chad''")and smooth (''Chalak'') so that it can swiftly cut what it has to without tearing.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 6</ref> | ||
Knives are sharpened and polished with special whetstones and checked before use. | Different knife lengths are required depending on the width of the neck being slaughtered.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 9</ref> | ||
The shochet checks it from top to bottom from the center, right, and left with his fingernail. | Knives are sharpened and polished with special whetstones and checked before use.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 6</ref> | ||
The knife is commonly rectangular and not pointed, to avoid chaladah. | The shochet checks it from top to bottom from the center, right, and left with his fingernail.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 18</ref> | ||
The knife is commonly rectangular and not pointed, to avoid chaladah.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 6</ref> | |||
==The Five Laws of Shechitah Every Shochet Must Know== | ==The Five Laws of Shechitah Every Shochet Must Know== | ||
