Commentary for Chullin 16:26

הטבח צריך שלשה סכינין

If so, even after slaughtering an animal which is permitted to be eaten it should also require [cleansing with hot water] because it absorbed [the fat] of the limbs of a living animal?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The fat, as well as the flesh, of a living animal is forbidden, and therefore in the duration of the slaughtering before the requisite amount has been cut, the knife will have absorbed forbidden fat.');">¹³</span>

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