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# A community may opt to exclusively use a certain shochet and declare all other shechitah to be prohibited or banned. Depending on the exact formulation of the decree, it's possible that with some legal rereading the act of another shochet slaughtering could be prohibited but the meat would still be permissible, despite the fact that the shochet violated the decree, especially if there would be a great financial loss or he was unaware of the decree.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:22. See also Nehar Mitzrayim.</ref> | # A community may opt to exclusively use a certain shochet and declare all other shechitah to be prohibited or banned. Depending on the exact formulation of the decree, it's possible that with some legal rereading the act of another shochet slaughtering could be prohibited but the meat would still be permissible, despite the fact that the shochet violated the decree, especially if there would be a great financial loss or he was unaware of the decree.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:22. See also Nehar Mitzrayim.</ref> | ||
# If an already errant shochet shechts in a place where there is no decree or the decree is lifted, some would say the meat is permissible.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:22</ref> | # If an already errant shochet shechts in a place where there is no decree or the decree is lifted, some would say the meat is permissible.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:22</ref> | ||
===Valid and Invalid Shechting Together=== | |||
====Back to back==== | |||
# If a valid and invalid shochet are shechting together, whoever crosses the threshold of proper shechitah or nevelah first locks in the status of the meat. For example, if the invalid one shechted the majority of the trachea and the valid on finished it without pausing, the shechitah is invalid because the invalid shochet made the animal a nevelah before the valid shochet shechted it. If the invalid shochet cut only a minority of the trachea and the valid shochet completed it, however, the shechitah is permissible. This is assuming the valid one was holding on to the trachea while the other was shechting and we know the invalid one did not cut the esophagus.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:27</ref> | |||
# The entire act of shechitah in its most minimal form must be performed solely by a valid shochet. Once that is done, the invalid one's continuing does not ruin the shechitah. For example, if a valid shochet cut the majority of the required simanim and then the invalid shochet finished, the meat is permitted. In difficult circumstances, some would permit the meat even if the invalid one started and completed the shechitah but the valid one cut enough to reach a majority in the middle.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:27</ref> | |||
====Simultaneously==== | |||
# As it is almost impossible to determine what exactly happened, if both of them shechted it at the same time, either each with his own knife or both holding on to one knife, the meat is forbidden. The same is true, some say, if they started together and then one let go and the other finished it.<ref>Simla Chadasha 2:28</ref> Only if one was incapable of shechting and the other is would we consider permitting the meat depending on the circumstances. | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Shechitah (Kosher Slaughter)]] | [[Category:Shechitah (Kosher Slaughter)]] | ||
