1,988
edits
Shechitah (Kosher Slaughter): Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
→How to Shecht: beracha links
MordechaiD (talk | contribs) (→How to Shecht: intent) |
MordechaiD (talk | contribs) (→How to Shecht: beracha links) |
||
| Line 71: | Line 71: | ||
==How to Shecht== | ==How to Shecht== | ||
''For more information, see [[The Shechitah Process]] | ''For more information, see [[The Shechitah Process]], [[Intention During Shechitah]], and [[Birkat HaShechitah]]'' | ||
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> | 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> | ||
| Line 77: | Line 77: | ||
# Check the knife | # Check the knife | ||
# Tefisah: Locate and grab the Simanim (trachea and esophagus) | # Tefisah: Locate and grab the Simanim (trachea and esophagus) | ||
# Recite the Beracha ("'Al HaShechitah'")<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 19</ref> | # Recite the Beracha ("'[[Birkat HaShechitah|Al HaShechitah]]'")<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 19</ref> | ||
===During=== | ===During=== | ||
# Severing the trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries, jugular veins and vagus nerve in a swift '''sawing''' action that immediately renders the chicken insensible to pain. | # Severing the trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries, jugular veins and vagus nerve in a swift '''sawing''' action that immediately renders the chicken insensible to pain. | ||
